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France. Through the special facilities which the Review 
enjoys of securing from first hands the earliest account of im¬ 
portant scientific movements in Europe, it is enabled to present 
to its readers a translation of the document as presented to the 
Societe Centrale de Medecine Veterinaire by the distinguished 
investigator and this almost as quickly as it is published upon 
the Continent. The article referred to is entitled “A New 
Pasteurellose : White Scour and Lung Disease of Calves in 
Ireland,” and will be found in the department of “ Original 
Articles.” 
A TUBERCULOSIS SENSATION. 
As the forms for this number of the Review are closing, 
Prof. Robert Koch, the eminent German scientist, has startled 
the medical world by a statement of his remarkable con¬ 
clusions upon the subject of tuberculosis before the London 
Congress. While we are, of course, unable to present to our 
readers at this time the full text of the paper which he read, 
we shall do so as early as possible. The distinguished professo 1 
has become convinced that there is nothing in common between 
human and bovine tuberculosis, and is persuaded that the hu¬ 
man family cannot be inoculated by the bacillus of the disease of 
cattle, and therefore all the precautions exercised throughout the 
civilized world to prevent the contraction of the disease in hu¬ 
mans through the meat and milk of tuberculous cattle are 
worse than useless. Judgment should be withheld until the 
mode of reasoning by which his conclusions have been reached 
are known. If Prof. Koch is correct, then a great many emi¬ 
nent investigators are wholly wrong, for our own Bureau of 
Animal Industry has staked its reputation upon the fatherhood 
of the bacillus tuberculosis being identical in all species of 
animals from man to the guinea-pig. 
The programme of the meeting of the New York State V. M. 
Society, to be held at Ithaca, Sept, io and n, will be found 
elsewhere, and is full to overflowing. 
