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Committee on Public Health, Dr. George W. Brush, of Kings 
County, for the prompt interest he has shown in the matter, his 
clear perception of the pernicious influences behind the measure,, 
and to say to our confreres that in him they will always find a,, 
friend to the struggling cause of higher education in veterinary 
medicine. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS IN ITS RELATIONS TO THE 
HUMAN FAMILY. 
By George H. Bailey, D. V. S., State Veterinarian of Maine. 
A Paper read before^the Maine Academy of Medicine and Science, at Portland, Feb. 8. 
( Concluded from page 2j.) 
It will be remembered that our vital statistics show that 
practically five-sevenths of our population are exempt from con¬ 
sumption. Far more important is it, however, that no nomadic, 
native or wild people living in the open air or tents, and more 
or less on the move, and no wild cattle, who have in no way 
come in contact with the so-called refinements of civilization 
have yet been found who were not exempt and free from tuber¬ 
culosis. 
The modern tendency of fashion among people of the most in¬ 
telligence to carry out-door exercise to an extreme, is already 
showing its favorable effects in the less number of consumptives 
and magnificent physique of the children in that class of society. 
Ignorance and poverty have exactly the contrary effect, as 
shown by the terrible percentage of tuberculosis in that class, 
continually increasing in intensity, and being extended more 
profoundly over society by the custom of marriage, utterly re¬ 
gardless of the physical fitness of the contracting parties to pro¬ 
duce anything as children but food for tubercle bacilli. 
It has been said that Koch’s discovery of the bacillus weak¬ 
ens the theory of heredity, but if it was heredity before, it is he¬ 
redity now, and to my mind only proves that the disease is in- 
