Show vw af tf f J t t s KOCH THEORY DOUBTED views of agricultural department officials on tuberculosis exhaustive TESTS adlie can 10 prom animal on which tofy hire that ault 0 o hear diore of koche claim dr kochs paper oil read before the british congress in london has aroused the interest 0 at the agricultural department tt it a bot accepted there as ra evidence says the washington curac apon dent of the new stirs u lal advertiser the wll mako dechange DO change in its aclee to prevent the sale of animals with and abc aa lo 10 spec tora at the meat will collaw their work as beare so far of course tho d have but the cac ports from which to jade 0 kochs claims but abo awer alons are contrary to nil the ot the department ano has beba study luff 1 for tte past SOy eare nod nia c hanst lve 11 it been impossible so far to deliberately the an almal theis ITO been ases under the bjes tit the department where such no resulted abo asso Is reported ly an had ari eruption on hla arn hc the blui arcan amimel tuberculosis of a virulent cypa and an investigation disclosed the fact that the cow from which the cream had been obtained had had tuberculosis another case Is the car shops at philadelphia chuc a cattle car a workman was wounded by a sliver tuberculosis followed nud the imand ledi othar cases are mentioned by ane departments scientists where conducting the post on animals pricked with the instruments used on the subject and animal tuberculosis followed which could be traced directly to the puncture made by the instrument on hand or body these cases arc pointed out a strong indication that the department has been correct in its past belief that the animal tuberculosis could be transmitted to the human body on the other hand abo department lias been able more freely to conduct Us experiments by inocel atiz y au the human tuberculosis the human tuberculosis la found to bo much less virulent than the animal it has slight effect on the animal and is much less virulent from human to human than from animal to these observations and results aro cited by the scientists of alie department solely a ground upon which to base their belief thoro Is no attempt to refute the assertions of dr koch dr D E salmon the chief of the bureau of industry of the agricultural department says that the reports cabled to the united states ot dr kochs paper are wholly inadequate for thea obtaining of a clear idea of tho german scientists cl atins when the full paper Is received and the experiments on which it Is based more clearly understood the department will be in a position to discuss the discovery with authority it will then take the natt tr ap and so far as possible conduct to demonstrate tha truth 0 dr kochs investigations among scientists in washington dr koch has become something of a discredited prophet of abo many discoveries he lias reported during late years they say the majority have been more interesting than practical and it Is because of tilts greatly that the scientists about washington will rely more on their own experiments than on the mere statement of dr koch one of the eminent scientists of the agricultural department said the other day that the refutation of an existing result was not a discovery and that dr koch would have to make more than the statement that so and BO Is true before li could lay claim to 0 1 il |