CONCLUSIONS. 
1. The position taken by Dr. Koch is of'inestimable 
value, whether right or wrong, as there has been nothing new 
but this conclusion placed before the medical and veterinary 
profession during the past decade, and it has aroused 
everybody from their lethargy and encouraged discussion 
and experiment as never before. 
2. It is unwarrantable to assume that, because of the 
low virulence of human bacilli for cattle, that the reverse is 
true. It has been repeatedly shown that bovine bacilli are 
more virulent than the human. Bovine bacilli being easily 
transmitted to rabbit, horse, dog, pig and sheep, and in 
short, to almost every quadruped on which they have been 
tried, makes it highly improbable that man is not included 
in the list; and until this is disproven by actual experiment 
upon the human, it will not be wise to relax prophylactic 
measures. 
3. Dr. Koch has been grossly misrepresented since his 
London Congress address. He says, among other things, 
4 1 have one word and only one word to say, and that is 
what I said in London. That word is ‘experiment!’” I 
would send it to my brother practitioners the world over. 
The time is past when we may be guided with either cer¬ 
tainty or profit by statistics. Nothing short of actual deal¬ 
ing with actual conditions will avail. We demonstrated 
that human tuberculosis was incapable of transmission to 
cattle. We have now to lend ourselves to the reverse 
proposition. 
“I did not mean to recommend the abandonment of 
comprehensive and expensive systems of regulation, pre¬ 
vention and inspection that is now in operation. 
“We are well on the road to victory over consumption. 
The final triumph is denied only by those who are unwilling 
to sacrifice their hobbies and work together to the common 
end.’’ 
