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DAVID S. WHITE. 
Calves and hogs are most commonly infected through 
bovine milk, and in Denmark, where the milk of cows is used to 
fatten colts, tuberculosis in horses is not a rare disease. In other 
countries equine consumption is almost unknown. In calves, 
hogs, and Danish horses the disease appears usually as a ‘‘ feed¬ 
ing tuberculosis ” of the bowel and mesenteric glands, with 
secondary nodules in the lungs. It would seem, then, to be indi¬ 
cated that these sources of consumption should be controlled. 
Against tuberculous organs and milk a sanitary war should be 
waged. To eradicate these sources of contagion we should have 
first and before all things a thorough system of meat and milk in¬ 
spection in every municipality in this broad land. Not the mere 
espionage of an antiquated, ignorant butcher,or of some one pos¬ 
sessed of a political “ pull,” but a well-equipped and established 
slaughter-house, where trained men would devote their lives and 
energies to the inspection of all animals killed and the products 
thereof. Experts who were trained in the pathology of our 
meat-producing animals, whose one aim should be to protect the 
citizens of their city from the chance of becoming poisoned or 
diseased by the ingestion of nocuous flesh. The dairies of the 
environing country should be under the rigid control of skilled 
men well versed in the infectious and contagious diseases of 
animals. The milkman should be made to not only guarantee 
his client a certain percentage of solid constituents and butter- 
fat, but should also be compelled to have his cattle herd sub¬ 
jected to a thorough, searching examination at stated periods, 
that he may be able to assure his customers that the milk that 
he leaves at their door is free from the taints of disease, espe¬ 
cially of the death-dealing tuberculosis. The latter is only now 
possible in that we have in that grand discovery of Koch an 
agent, though not always infallible, upon which great reliance 
can be placed to unearth bovine tuberculosis in its latent or in¬ 
cipient forms. 
If you want the proceedings of the Nashville meeting of the 
U.S.V.M.A., in compact form, read the Review. 
