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Dr. Swinburne—I cannot say. 
Mr. Funston—Have you not read this in the report? Do 
they not say it is pleuro-pneumonia ? 
Dr. Swinburne—If they do I think they lie. 
His co-worker, Dr. Gallinger, of New Hampshire, said : If 
gentlemen will turn to their dictionaries and look at the meaning 
of the word pleuro-pneumonia, they will find that it signifies an 
inflamed condition of the pleura and of the lungs. Every medical 
man in this house has treated many cases of pleuro-pneumonia in 
the human family, and no medical man has ever yet dared to say , 
upon his honor and reputation, that in the human family it is a 
contagious disease .” 
“ I stand here, sir, to say that we have no proof at all that the 
so-called pleuro-pneumonia in the cattle of this country is a con¬ 
tagious disease, and if this House is to legislate upon the subject 
at all, let us go upon the broad ground that it is safer to employ 
scientific experts to determine what the disease is before we pro¬ 
ceed to lavishly spend the people’s money in experiments to extir¬ 
pate it. * * * j 
“Go to the great overcrowded stock yards in the large cities, 
and you will find a disease called pleuro-pneumonia; go to the 
sinks of iniquity in the large cities, where vice and filth prevail, 
and you will fiyid smallpox and scarlet fever and diphtheria 
among the people who are crowded there. These are filth dis¬ 
eases, produced by filth, as scientific men assert and have always 
asserted, and if you trace this disease of pleuro-pneumonia among 
the cattle of this country you will find that it will exist where 
sanitation has been neglected and where the laws of life and 
health have been set at defiance, and very likely it found its origin 
either in the cruel condition under which the cattle were trans¬ 
ported, neglect of proper care after they were brought to their des¬ 
tination, or the direct result of climatic changes. Now if we are 
going to spend $200,000, or $100,000, or $50,000, or $25,000 for 
this purpose, let us spend it to determine first whether this dis¬ 
ease exists, and if it exists what its exact nature is, and whether 
or not it is contagious. My opinion is that we had better spend 
$20,000 for a commission of scientific men, and give them 
