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sometimes veritable purulent collections are found, either en¬ 
cysted or in communication with the exterior. If the caseous 
or purulent matter be subjected to an examination, tubercle 
baccilli are not usually found, but upon inoculation they are 
found to be present. The generalization of the disease, espe¬ 
cially in the muscular tissue, is reported by several observers. 
Why do we condemn for this disease? 
I think there is not one present at this meeting who would 
hesitate to condemn a hog for tuberculosis. I condemn every 
one found that shows any symptoms of the disease, because in 
swine it becomes generalized so quickly, and the result of ex¬ 
periments upon this subject show that the muscle juice of 
tuberculous swine is often virulent. Another point worthy of 
consideration is the increased danger from the consumption of 
meat from tuberculous swine over tuberculous cattle, which is 
due to its greater tendency to become generalized in swine. 
The consumption of tuberculous pork by a person inclined to 
be tuberculous or who is afflicted with the disease in a latent 
stage, would be like taking a small dose of tuberculin and it 
would produce the same effect, that is, to awaken the disease 
afresh and start it on its deadly course. 
“ THE VETERINARIAN A FACTOR IN POLITICS/' 
By T. B. Newby, V. S., Pana, III. 
Read before Illinois State Veterinary Medical Association, Feb. 21, 1900. 
As the present century opens or closes, whichever arm of 
the argument you wish to accept, it finds us living in an age of 
ever and rapidly changing conditions ; an age, indeed, in which 
the sluggard is remembered only in name ; when the successful 
man keeps abreast of the tide and does not wait for that mighty 
current to catch him in its drift, until he awakes to activity and 
views his lost opportunity. A time when the struggle for 
political supremacy is strained to the last point of human 
achievement, and he must be both a strategist and tactician, to 
successfully reach the goal. The politician of the old school 
