Connecticut western news., 1921-04-21

culosis in any animal sold from that herd.
 Herd No. g, 40 head reacted, two were killed and the doctors efforts were in vain to make the people be- lieve that these two animals were diseased. The state cattle commis- sioner held the test of the herd for a retest against the advice of the veterinarian who loudly claimed that the whole herd was diseased; in fact the test had proven it. One year la- ter the remaining 38 head were test ed by a different veterinarian who said after the test tI never tested 8 more healthy herd" Now readers which test was correct?
 will call your attention to the re- port of the Montana experiment sta tion as given in the Breeders Ga zette. Six daily temperatures were taken in a herd of 28 COWS for period af 30 days. The report sta tes that nearly every day one or more cows exhibited temperatures that would have been called reac- tions had a tuberculin test been in 
 progress.
 I would like to ask those writers who have unbounded faith in the test what assurance they can give that their accredited herds will not go the way of some of the herds I have mentioned. The subcutaneous test is rapidly going the way of all medical theories, and to bolster up a decaying faith the veterinarians have sprung the ophthalmac and in terdermal tests upon a credulous those of best repute yesterday, and tomorrow themselves bcome a dis credited tradition.
 Different Kinds of Nodules Dr. De Fossit says that nodules in animals do not necessarily mean that | they are tuberculars, as there is a parasitic disease throughout the Unit ed States which causes nodules, and no trained veterinarian should fail to differentiate between this and the tuberculous type. Now readers, I will leave it to the thousands who have witnessed the post-mortems if 1t hasn't been customary for the veter- l inarians to point to any kind of nodule, speck or spot of any descrip- tion as evidence of tuberculosis, and it is on these grounds that our veter- inarians have based the reliability of | the test.
 pr. Fishberg, professor of med icine, university and Bellevue hospit- al medical college of New York, says that the tuberculin test in humans after a thorough trial has proved of questionable value, and has been dis carded. Moreover, he says that in stead of bovine tuberculosis being a dauger to humans it is beneficial, as it immunizes humans against infec- tion with the more deadly human type. Dr H. w. Turner of Pennsyl-
 vania veterinary department, says that human and bovine tuberculosis are caused by the same germ. Now compare this with the eminent Dr. Fishberg and others say, and you have conclusive proof that the doc
 tors know mighty little about tuber-
 culosis. In fact, there is no collec-
 tive intelligence among them. How
 ever, it is evident that the veterina-
 rians will continue to test and to kill
 animals to save humans from having
 bovine tuberculosis just as long as a
 credulous people will bear the ex- lpense.
 | On the other hand, from what
 leading bacteriologists and physicians
 say, it is evident that the time is
 coming when the medical doctors will
 manufacture bovine tuberculosis and
 inoculate a servile and victimized
 people with it to save them from hav-
 ing the more deadly human type. Ii
 is an anomaly that thinking people
 should cringe before and bear the ex.
 pense and appalling waste of suct
 contradictory theories.
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