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to accept this dual view. When Dr. DorsEr (30) discovered the 
filterable virus that is now recognized as the cause of the disease, 
Dr. DeETMERS was vindicated in regard to the identity of the two 
diseases, even though his belief as to the cause had to be dis- 
carded. 
The tenacity, with which Dr. Deters clung to his explana- 
tion of his discovery, was a fair measure of his character. He 
knew that he was right, as far as his experience went, and he 
defended his position to the best of his ability against both friend 
and foe, and he encountered both. As a matter of fact Dr. DEr- 
MERs knew only two kinds of people, friends or foes, and with 
each class he went to the limit. For his friends he knew no sac- 
rifice too great, for his foes no resistance too strong. 
On completing his work with the Federal Government he was 
successively professor of veterinary science at the Iowa Agri- 
cultural College, The University of Missouri, The Kansas State 
Agricultural College, and the University of Illinois. In 1884 
he was called to the Ohio State University where he founded the 
college of veterinary medicine. At the same time he acted as 
veterinarian of the Ohio Experiment Station at Wooster, and 
there labored without relief on a system of protective innocula- 
tion against the swine plague. In all of his activities during his 
long public life as a teacher, and his retired life as an investi- 
gator, he worked unceasingly for the development of his chosen 
profession. His former students were all his personal friends 
in whom he took a fraternal interest and a personal pride. In 
November, 1906, at the age of seventy-one years, he passed away 
at Columbus, Ohio. Very few of the veterinarians and agricul- 
turists of today were acquainted with Dr. DETmerRs, but those 
who possess this privilege need no further appreciation of his 
worth and quality. 
