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important source. But that is not a reason for wittingly 
creating new foci of contagion and of predisposition, for I 
well believe that no person in the Congress would dare to 
take the responsibility of categorically affirming that, in any 
case, the use of tuberculous flesh would be free from danger. 
Several of our associates have pointed out the frequency 
of tuberculosis among pigs of certain feeders. In most cases, 
as M. Veyssiere has shown, tuberculosis of the pig descends 
by contagion from that of the ox. M. Moule and M. Peuch 
have spoken, the one of the frequency of tuberculosis of 
fowls, and the other of its inoculability to the rabbit. We 
know that the malady exhibits the characters of an enzootic 
in some important poultry yards. It appears to us useful to 
'treat the flesh of these animals in the same manner as that of 
tuberculous subjects of the bovine species. 
Compensation. —Although, in the opinion of M. Lydtin, the 
prohibition of the flesh of tuberculous animals should not ex¬ 
tend to all subjects, it was nevertheless proposed at the Brus¬ 
sels Congress to award compensation for all subjects seized 
at the abattoir. He considered that measure an excellent 
means of avoiding the sale of animals attacked with tubercu¬ 
losis. 
We ought, a fortiori, to propose the principle of compen¬ 
sation when we ask a vote in favor of total seizure in all cases 
of tuberculosis, without distinction. 
Almost all the veterinarians who took part in the discus¬ 
sions of the Congresses of 1883, 1885, and 1888, claimed com¬ 
pensation as to the corollary of the seizure or interdiction of 
tuberculous flesh. 
An opinion of great value in this respect, and one that I 
am pleased to cite, is that of M. Van Hertsen, who for a long 
period has had charge of the inspection of the abattoir at 
Brussels. “Although quite sharing the opinion of those who 
are in favor of total seizure of all tuberculous flesh,” said M. 
Van Hertsen in 1888, “ it would be impossible for me, despite 
the confidence with which I am honored by the communal 
administration of Brussels, to carry this idea into practice, if 
in executing it I could not rely upon partial or total compen- 
