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more certainly, milk of suspects or tuberculous animals must be 
boiled before being consumed. 
In relation to the consumption of tuberculous meat or pro¬ 
ducts, previously sterilized by heat, Professor Galtier says that 
the accidental consumption of sterilized tuberculous products 
cannot promote toxic effects ; that even repeated meals, com¬ 
posed of substances containing relatively great quantities of 
sterilized tuberculous lesions, do not give rise to any indisposi¬ 
tion ; that the ingestion of well cooked lesions and of their 
bacillus is without danger ; that there is no danger to fear from 
the use of meats and organs of tuberculous animals properly 
cooked , even if they should be the seat of some lesions. 
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Rabid Lesions in the Dog and the Post-mortem 
Diagnosis of the Disease. —Except the condition of the ab¬ 
normal contents of the stomach of rabid dogs, no lesions are 
observed at the autopsy, and to establish a positive diagnosis it 
is necessary to resort to the inoculation into rabbits of the ner¬ 
vous substance of the suspected animal. Examination of the 
stomach is doubtful. Inoculation necessitates the loss of fifteen 
to twenty days. In both cases the indications for the necessity 
of early preventive treatment of a person who has been bitten 
are difficult to establish. At the Royal Academy of Medicine 
of Brussels, Mr. Nelis, of Louvain, has presented a report 
which throws an important light on the question of the diag¬ 
nosis, in which he says that he has succeeded in establishing 
comparatively characteristic lesions of the nervous system of 
rabid animals. Those affecting the cerebral and spinal peri¬ 
pheric gangloin, consist in the atrophy , invasion and destruc¬ 
tion of the nervous cells by cells of neoformation which appear 
between the nervous cells a7id their endothelial capsule. There 
is, then, a lesion, already mentioned by Babes, under the name 
of rabid tubercle, which has somewhat the same signification 
as the glanderous tubercle and the tuberculous neoplasia. 
In controlling examinations made by Professor G. Heb- 
rant, of the Brussels School, the lesion was found in the 
