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believes also that such milk even when boiled still retains 
its injurious properties. Further, he maintains that beyond 
doubt the tuberculosis of the human subject, though not 
completely identical with that of the cow, is yet strictly ana- 
lagous to it, and that consequently the wide prevalence of 
tuberculosis in the native herds—at least 5 per cent, of which 
are affected—is a standing danger to the health of the com¬ 
munity. Seeing the enormous mortality from consumption, 
more especially in towns, Professor Bollinger believes it to 
be of the utmost importance to urge upon all classes, and 
particularly upon farmers, the absolute necessity of taking 
every possible means of stamping out the disease among 
cattle. Meanwhile some measures of safety may be secured 
by the rigid exclusion of all diseased stock from town dairies, 
a measure which forms a prominent feature in the pro¬ 
gramme of the recently established Associated Dairy at 
Munich, where all the cows are constantly kept under skil¬ 
led veterinary surveillance, and any that may exhibit the 
least symptom of tuberculosis are at once w r eeded out.— 
North British Agriculturist. 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 
Monthly Council, Wednesday, Dec. 10th, 1879. Present: H. R. H. 
the Prince of Wales, K.G., the Duke of Bedford (President in the 
chair). 
Veterinary Committee. 
Mr. Dent reported that the Committee had received from Professor 
Simonds a report on the inquiries of the past month, and they recom¬ 
mend that the following cases be published in the proceedings of the 
Council: 
“Since the November meeting of the Veterinary Committee the 
following communications have been received from Members of the 
Society, relating to the existence of disease among Cattle and Sheep, and 
asking for advice in the respective cases. 
“ Nov. 4th.—Mr. Denchfield, Burston, Bucks, forwarded the livers of 
two sheep affected with ‘ rot, 5 and requested to be informed ‘ what 
length of time the animals had been diseased/ The examination dis¬ 
closed the existence of young flukes in immense numbers in the gall- 
ducts of both livers, but an entire absence of any matured or fully- 
developed ones. This fact, together with the small amount of structural 
disease which had taken place in the livers, as a consequence of the 
presence of the parasites, led to the conclusion that the animals had 
only been affected with ‘ rot 5 about three months. In addition to the 
changes of structure alluded to, one liver was here and there 
affected to an extent which must have taken many months to pro¬ 
duce ; but, from the nature of the changes, the function of the liver 
