VETERINARY SCIENCE. 
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Let me read to you what an able, honored and fearless mem¬ 
ber of your profession said in an address, as retiring president 
last June—I mean Dr. Harbaugh, of the Virginia State Veter¬ 
inary Medical Association. 
“We have,” he says, “to fight a monster which stretches 
forth its arms in all directions and clutches with its grasp all 
who can be controlled by fear, favor or value received ; and this 
monster is the wealthy breeding interest which makes a hobby 
of high-priced pedigreed cattle until it tires of them and then 
unloads them on the unsuspecting dairyman to infect his smaller 
herd with tuberculosis. Even from our standpoint there are 
two sides to this tuberculosis question. The first is the public 
health ; and I care not whether a man believes there is much or 
little danger in using the milk or flesh of tubercular animals 
through risk of transmission of the disease to the human being, 
it is certain that such milk and flesh ought not to-be used. 
Milk is a part of the cow, and therefore animal matter, and if 
the cow is tuberculous her milk is part of a diseased cow, and 
should not be used for human food. The same proposition 
applies to meats from tuberculous animals, no matter how 
thoroughly sterilized, and it disgusts me to hear our would-be 
veterinary politicians talk of using such meats the same as they 
do for the lower classes of Europe, when we have meat to spare 
for the world. No, gentlemen, we are not in Europe and do not 
have to devour diseased'products to prevent starvation. Let us 
be consistent and fight against all diseased animal products being 
used for human food. 
“ Another thing that surprises me is that there are veterinari¬ 
ans occupying high places who have the effrontery to tell us 
milk from tuberculous herds, when fed to pigs, produces the 
same disease in them and that there is little danger of producing 
it in human beings ! 
“ These are breeders’ opinions, whether uttered by veteri¬ 
narians, agricultural journals or other hirelings. No man who 
sees the post-mortem lesions of a few tuberculous cows wants 
milk from any such animals in his house, danger or no danger.” 
