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JOHN J. REPP. 
2. By Natural Methods. 
The evidence on this score is only presumptive. However, 
it is well known that since ancient times legislation and sani 
tary regulations have been moulded around the presumption that 
the meat of highly tuberculous animals is dangerous as human 
food on account of the risk of conveying the disease to man 
through this medium. At this time every civilized nation that 
has any legislation or sanitary regulations in regard to the meat 
of tuberculous animals provides that such meat shall either be 
condemned or that it shall be sold under declaration. These 
laws and regulations are based upon the analogy between tuber 
culosis in animals and the same disease in man and the fact of 
the intertransmissibility of this disease among the various species 
of animals. Whether this evidence warrants such restriction 
on the use of meat or not, has not yet been positively demon¬ 
strated, and on account of the impracticability of direct experi¬ 
ment with human beings we will almost certainly never be able 
to make such demonstration. The question must be decided 
upon the evidence we already have, and upon the additional 
evidence of the same character which from time to time may be 
added. 
Of course, cooking of meats as it is usually practiced effec¬ 
tually disposes of most of such danger as would exist if meat 
were eaten raw and without any attempt at sterilization. On 
the other hand, there is not one whit of evidence that tubercu¬ 
losis is not to some extent transmitted from animal to man 
through ingestion of meat. All the evidence we have indicates 
that such transmission occurs to a limited extent. 
(To he continued .) 
The Legislature of Texas has just appropriated #51,000 
to erect a chemical and veterinary laboratory at the State Agri¬ 
cultural and Mechanical College. Dr. M. Francis is in charge 
of the Department of Veterinary Science. We have every rea¬ 
son to feel satisfied with the progress being made at the begin¬ 
ning of the twentieth century, especially in the Western section 
of this continent. 
