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GEORGE H. BAILEY. 
the tuberculous process is commencing or actively progressing. 
The comparative danger from the use of milk and meat is greatly 
diminished in the latter, by the fact that all civilized communi¬ 
ties are supposed to cook their meat sufficiently to destroy all 
germs coutained in the small lymphatic glands between the 
muscles, rather than in the muscles themselves.” Dr. Law 
points out “ another danger from the disease, through the life 
product of the bacillus,” and says, “ It is this extension of tuber¬ 
culosis under the influence of the toxic products of the bacillus 
which raises the most important question in connection with the 
consumption by man of the flesh and dairy products of tubercu¬ 
lous animals ; and yet the question has been overlooked by sani¬ 
tarians in the most unaccountable way. It has seemed enough 
for them that the living tubercle bacillus did not exist in the 
juices of the muscles nor in the meat. It seems never to have 
occurred to them that all the soluble poisonous products of this 
bacillus are constantly circulating in the blood which passes 
through the muscles, and that they traverse the blood-vessels of 
the mammary glands, and escape into the milk.” Accepting 
then as undeniable the presence of the soluble chemical poisons 
in blood, flesh and milk, it follows that those who eat this flesh 
or milk are constantly taking in small doses of tuberculin ; and 
in that case, if they are already the victims of tuberculosis, in 
however slight or indolent a form, this continuous accession of 
the poison will rouse the morbid process into greater activity 
and secure a dangerous extension. 
Dr. Treon describes the poor, emaciated, diseased animals 
furnished to the tribes of Northwestern Indians, how they eat 
the liver, tallow and entrails raw and fresh, and how the carcass 
is dried, pounded and packed in skins to be eaten later, un¬ 
cooked, even though the animal died of disease. The Indian 
mortality from consumption is 50 per cent, of all deaths from 
several points., while at Crow Creek, Dakota, 50 out of the total 
Indian population of 1200 die yearly of consumption and scrofula. 
But there is another side to all this : Consumption in man is 
communicable to animals and none such should be allowed to 
