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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
you have such interference as that it of course takes some little 
time to control public sentiment, or enlighten them as to the 
actual facts in the case. 
Dr. Forbes : Before closing the discussion I would like to 
emphasize some of the remarks made by several of the partici¬ 
pants in this discussion as to the necessity of getting before the 
public the need for a thorough and competent meat and milk 
inspection. I think also that the suggestion of some members 
as to going a little slow should be considered. We should be 
content with a very small thing at first and wait until the pub¬ 
lic has been educated to it before pushing the matter to any 
great extent. I think by so doing we will arrive at better 
results. 
Dr. Wilson : On ante - mortem we frequently have cows 
where the udder is enlarged, and also have matter and little 
abscesses in the udder, and I would like to ask the writer of 
this paper how he would diagnose whether this diseased con¬ 
dition arose from tuberculosis or was simply an inflammatory 
product. 
Dr. Nether ton : I think that where you have an inflamma¬ 
tion due to mammitis the nodules are not as small as in tuber¬ 
culosis, but I believe it would have to go to post-mortem before 
it could be determined positively. I have a cow out here now 
in one of these dairies, a nice Holstein cow, and giving about 
six gallons of milk daily. On the right hind quarter a little 
abscess developed. It commenced a mammitis, I think, and 
I prescribed the regular treatment for mammitis, to which it 
seemed to yield partially. The enlargement abated to about 
the size of a hen’s egg. Two weeks later I was called again 
and found it had become very hard. I put a knife in it and got 
quite a bit of pus. It seemed to heal up, and left a little nodule 
there about the size of a walnut. It ran along that way for four 
or five months and did not seem to bother her, when about two 
weeks ago it commenced enlarging and it got the size of a goose 
egg. I was again called and again applied the knife, and as 
before obtained a considerable quantity of pus. It is going 
down nicely and I think will soon be all right, but all this time 
he has been using the milk from this cow, supplying it to the 
city. I do not know whether it was a case of mammitis or 
tuberculosis. 
Dr. Peters: I would call it a suspicious case of tuberculosis. 
All such cases should be tested with tuberculin. 
Dr. Stewart: As the question has drifted into one of ante- 
