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bacillus, and the cultures of which produce simultaneously 
tubercles and an affection of the blood in the animals inocu¬ 
lated. M. Courmont has probably discovered a case analo¬ 
gous to that encountered by M. Toussaint. If these examples, 
were somewhat frequent in the ox, one sees how the flesh of 
the affected animals would be dangerous. 
Measures to betaken against tuberculous flesh. —To sum up, 
scientific prudence requires that we should regard as injuri¬ 
ous, at all times and in all conditions, the flesh of animals in 
which the lesions of tuberculosis are present. Its nocuity 
present or latent will, of course, probably be proportional to 
the extent and the softening of the tubercular lesions. That 
is to say very distinctly that the guarantees given to consum¬ 
ers by Gerlach, by Johne, and by the French law appear to 
us insufficient, although since the decree of the 28th of July, 
1888, the number of seizures has increased in the majority of 
abattoirs, notably at Lyons. 
M. Lydtin would permit the use of the flesh of animals 
attacked with tuberculosis, “if the lymphatic glands -still 
showed themselves exempt from every morbid lesion .” But since 
there perhaps does not exist in the ox a tuberculous focus 
without accompanying hypertrophy of the lymphatics of the 
organ affected, the license would entail the seizure of all tu¬ 
berculous animals. It is better not to disguise the means,, 
and to pronounce clearly for the total seizure of all flesh com¬ 
ing from animals struck with tuberculosis, whatever the ex¬ 
tent and the state of the lesions and of the flesh.* 
The flesh seized, with the exception of the suet, ought to 
be so treated as to render it unsuitable for the feeding of ani¬ 
mals. 
It will doubtless be objected that bovine tuberculosis is 
not the only source of human tuberculosis. We know that 
well; we are even persuaded, unhappily, that it is the least 
*At the Congress held in Paris in 1888 for the study of tuberculosis in man 
and animals, MM. Degive and Van Hertsen, of Belgium; Thomassen, of Hol¬ 
land; Robinson and Cope, of the United Kingdom; Siegen, of Luxemberg ; 
Aureggio, Butel, Spillman, Lefebvre, and Arloing spoke or read notes demand¬ 
ing the absolute prohibition of tuberculous animals. 
