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culous cows will receive the infection, and develop the malady, after a 
lono- or short interval, according to circumstances. This impresses the 
necessity for not breeding from animals tainted with the disease, nor 
allowing them to suckle young animals, if they are bred from—neither 
should their milk be given for consumption to any creature; they ought 
to be killed, and if not much infected certain portions of their flesh 
allowed for consumption. The dwellings they inhabited should be 
treated as infected places, and cleansed and disinfected. Very serious 
risk mankind incur through using the flesh and milk of infected animals. 
When animals are in good condition, the tubercles localised, and the 
lymphatic glands not generally involved, then the flesh may be allowed 
to be used for consumption ; but when there is generalised tuberculosis, 
or even an advanced stage of the disease in any important organs, it 
should not be consumed as food. More particularly should this be 
observed when there is emaciation. In any other disease the flesh of 
emaciated animals is innutritious ; in this it is so, and virulent as well. 
With regard to the milk, this should invariably be condemned as highly 
dangerous. All dairy stock should be carefully and regularly inspected 
by thoroughly competent veterinarians, with a view to discovering the 
earliest indications of the disease, and so preserve not only the lives of 
animals in contact with them, but also those of the people who consume 
their milk ; for, judging from the close relationship between the pig and 
mankind, physiologically and anatomically speaking, there cannotbe a 
doubt that our own species would be as readily affected as the porcine. 
The conclusions to be drawn from the facts contained in the paper Mr. 
Fleming left to the consideration of the Association, but of their im¬ 
portance to his mind there could be but one opinion. 
Mr. Fleming, in the course of reading his paper, was frequently 
applauded. 
NORTH OF ENGLAND VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
The quarterly meeting of this Association was held in the Douglas 
Hotel, Newcastle-on-Tyne, on Friday, February 25th, 1880. 
The President, Mr. D. Dudgeon, Sunderland, in the chair. There 
were, also present, Messrs. H. Hunter, A. Hunter, C. Stephenson, G. 
Elphick, Newcastle-on-Tyne; J. Gofton, North Shields; F. Niobet, 
Fence Houses; W. J. Mulvey, Bishop Auckland; M. Hedley, Darling¬ 
ton ; and the Secretary. 
Mr. W. O. Williams was present as a visitor. 
Apologies were received from Prof. Williams, Messrs. W. Awde and 
J. Malcolm. 
Letters were read from the Secretaries of the Liverpool and Lanca¬ 
shire Veterinary Medical Association, with regard to representatives on 
the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons ; after con¬ 
siderable discussion it was agreed that the members of this Association, 
while approving of the re-election of the six retiring members, do not 
individually bind themselves to vote for each. 
Interesting cases were related by Messrs. Hedley, Mulvey, and Niobet, 
and after remarks on them from several of the members, the discus¬ 
sion on Mr. Mulvey’s paper (“ Injuries to the Coronet and Feet ”) was 
