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“ In order that the viscera of a tuberculous animal may be 
passed for consumption, it is necessary that at the moment of 
slaughter the disease should be still at its early stage (debut), 
that the lesions should have extended to only a small part of 
the body, that the lymphatic glands should still show them¬ 
selves exempt from all the morbid lesions of tuberculosis, that 
the tuberculous foci should not yet have undergone soften¬ 
ing, that the flesh should present the characters of meat of 
the first quality, and that the general state of nutrition of the 
animal slaughtered should leave nothing to be desired at the 
time of its being killed.” 
But at the end of the meeting at which this motion was 
discussed, H. Bouley, under the influence of very legitimate 
dread, caused by some experiments of M. Toussaint, led the 
Congress to declare for the principle of total seizure in every 
case of tuberculosis, whatever might be the extent of the 
lesion and the apparent quality of the flesh. 
Let us add, however, that the amendment of H. Bouley 
was adopted by only fifteen votes against fourteen, with nine 
abstentions. The question was in reality adjourned. 
It was taken up again by the French veterinary surgeons 
on November ist, 1885. In spite of a very animated discus¬ 
sion, in which M. Butel urgently demanded the adoption of 
H. Bouley’s proposition, the Congress emitted a view slightly 
different from that made at Brussels by M. Lydtin. 
The Congress for the Study of Tuberculosis in Man and 
Animals, initiated by our honorable and distinguished asso¬ 
ciate, M. Butel, held in Paris in the month of July, 1888, put 
at the head of its labors the study of the dangers attending 
the use of the flesh and milk of tuberculous animals. 
There were heard some interesting communications, some 
having for object to diminish the fear which the use of the 
flesh of tuberculous animals inspires, others to show the dan¬ 
ger under its true light, and the grave responsibility which 
would be incurred by sanitary agents who, against humanity, 
would persist in forgetting it. 
After a long discussion the Congress passed unanimously, 
save for three votes, the following resolution : “ There ought 
