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A. S. HEATH. 
between tlie Veterinary Profession of TPo-day and Organized 
Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.” It will be 
published in the December Review. 
“ The Country Seaughter-House as a Factor in 
THE Spread of Disease,” by Ch. Warded Stiles, Ph.D., is 
received from the Bureau of Animal Industry, and is full of 
wise and thoughtful suggestions, adding to the data which are 
gradually accumulating to the end of placing all slaughtering 
in central abattoirs, and tinder governmental inspection. 
ORIG INAL ARTI CLES. 
[Written Specially for the American Veterinary Review.] 
THE goat as a means OF CHECKING THE SPREAD 
OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASES TO MAN AND 
DOMESTIC animals. 
By a. S. Heath, M. D., V. S , New York Ciiy. 
“ Health is the principle of blissH 
The goat has a digestion so strong, and a vitality so persist¬ 
ent, that it can-tat many of the most virulent vegetable poisons, 
and eliminate the poisons, and extract the nutriment from pois¬ 
onous plants and convert it into healthy life-giving products. 
The poison hemlock, the foxglove, the stramonium and other 
like plants are such as the goat eats with perfect impunity. 
From the earliest period of human societies this hardy, 
wild and erratic creature has been subjected to the power of 
man, and, like the ox and sheep, has ministered to his comfort 
and needs. And now at the dawn of the twentieth century 
the goat comes forward to defend the human race against the 
contagious diseases engendered by the errors of civilization. 
The sacred writings are profuse in references to the goat, as 
forming, together with the sheep, the ox, and the camel, the 
riches of the patriarchs. Moses permitted the goat to be used 
as human food, and employed him in a remarkable religious cere- 
