Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-11-01

poorly prepared to answer questions
. of scientific nature that few well
directed queries would have exposed
the fallacy of his lecture. His an
swers to questions of the most trivial
nature were wrong, for instance, in
reply to a, question he stated that it
could be determined whether milk
was contaminated with L. b. by mi
lcroscopic examination.
A letter from the director of the
Laboratory of Hygiene, Burlington,
VT, read as follows: "Microscopical
examination of milk to determine the
! 1 presence of germs of tuberculosis is
practically useless"
!, To show you the utter unreliability
of some of the literature sent out by
this mighty Federal Bureau, I will
: call the readers attention to the fol-
; lowing:
Less than year ago a gentleman
from this bureau stated in talk
given in the church vestry at Glover,
that pamphlet had been published
and issued to the effect that contag-
ious abortion is spread by the herd
bull. He then went on and said that
it had now been proven that it is ut
terly impossible to spread that dis
ease by the bull.
Now readers, you have paid these
so-called scientific Investigators for
; both theories. Now take your choice
but tell me please how much better
off are we because of this expensive
so-called scientific investigation and
shall we continue to elect men that
will vote to appropriate the peoples
; money to continue this crazy work of
theorizing.
This bureau says, "Once a reactor
always tuberculous." In my opinion
III have sufficient evidence to convince
! any stable-minded man that this
statement is false.
Perhaps one of the most serious
mistakes made by DR.. Gibson was the
criticism heaped upon the medical
profession represented at the meet
ing held at Rutland of the Vermont
State T. B. commission. Now it is a
fact and admitted by DR.. Gibson that
: the medical profession are pretty
thoroughly convinced that if there is
any danger of humans contraction tu-
berculosis from milk it is so minute
that it has never been proven. If the
, people of this state are convinced that
this cow doctor sent out by the Blu
! reau of ANIMAL Industry knows more
about disease, it's cause, and effect,
= and the treatment of humans in ill
:. | IlCSS OIldIl CIlG IIlculCdI pIOlcSSlOIl, IL
logically follows that when they OF
any of the family are stricken with
illness that they should send for this
cow doctor instead of the family
physician.
When a bureau, composed of pub
lie Office holders seeking huge appro-
priatiOns, send out a man of the Glib
son type, who is lamentably deficient
: in scientific attainments but is an art
list at fattering, spends much time in
heaping flattery and adulation upon
the audience; the people will, if half
awake, Immediately come to the con-
clusion that this bureau has an axe
to grind and expects through adroit
speakers and subtle propaganda to
induce the people to crank the grind
stone while they reap a golden har-
vest.
In criticizing an article in the N. E..
Fl. by Mr.. Langlois of Maine, Mr..
Gibson says, "This gentleman says a
COW will not react in the summer
time" Mr.. Langlois did not make
that statement in the Homestead
mentioned.
One of the film pictures in the
Gibson lecture portrayed a veterinar-
ian inspector at his work. To judge
from the picture this Inspector stood
there handling the diseased parts of
animals in an atmosphere reeking
with disease day after day, month
after month, and year after year, and
| asked him how long could man
do that work without contracting T.
B., and he said, 81 stood there eight
years." I then asked him if he had
ever been tuberculin tested and he
said, "No." "Why not" and he re
plyed "T could see no need of it." I
then told him that is the way felt in
regard to my cattle.
If these veterinarians who pretend
to be so solicitious of public health,
who having been continuously expos
ed to the white plague for years,
will have themselves tuberculin tested
before mingling with the public, they
will then give some evidence of their
honesty and sincerity, and unless they
preach, they will have no right to ex-
pect thinking public to have any
confidence in them or their theories
whatever.
DR.. Gibson said, 'tLadies and gen
tlemen, / have the most explicit faith
in the tuberculin test" Now this is
the identical idea expressed by the
mining sharks when they were selling
their worthless mining stocks in this
community some years ago. / would
like to contrast this government paid
COW doctors words with statements
4 made by eminent American, English
and Canadian physicians. Geo. Starr
), White, M. DID,. c., Phi. D., L. L. D..
: F. S. S. G., (Lond), writes, 81 have
:, had over % years of practical exper-
: fence in studying this question from
s all sides and know intimately the in
/ side facts behind this damnable prop
! uganda" Then he proceeds to give
: 40 reasons why the test should not be
a used. will quote only seven. OF
: them. They are as follows:
/, IL. can animal is twice as liable
to contract tuberculosis or any other
r disease after having been given the
: tuberculin test
d Is. In direct ratio with the tuber-
d lculin testing of cows will be the in
crease of tuberculous cows The in
+ crease of tuberculous cows in many
states, bears out this assertion