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SOME EXPERIENCES IN THE SOUTH. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
“ SOME EXPERIENCES IN THE SOUTH.” 
By W. H. Dalrymple, M. R. C. V. S., Baton Rouge, La. 
A Paper read before the United States Veterinary Medical Association, at Buffalo, 
Sept. 2, 1896. 
Mr. President and Gentlemen .—When first asked by our 
worthy Secretary to prepare a paper for this meeting I hesitated, 
principally on account of the lack of time, partly on account of 
the tiouble, and to some extent because it was extremely doubt¬ 
ful whether I would be present to read it. However, after a 
second persuasive letter from Dr. Stewart, in which he men¬ 
tioned the fact that several gentlemen were coming long dis¬ 
tances from both North and West to contribute to the success of 
the meeting, and that he felt sure that something in the na¬ 
ture of a Southern experience would prove interesting to our 
Northern and Eastern brethren, I felt constrained to yield to his 
appealing request. 
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I trust, gentlemen, you will not feel disappointed when I tell 
you that I have not confined myself to the discussion of any one 
specific disease. It occurred to me that as professional work in 
the South, especially in my section of the country, might be 
new to the majority of you, a paper of a general or rambling 
character might prove the more interestincr. 
Until some seven years ago, when I was appointed to the 
Chair of Veterinary Science in the Uouisiana State University 
and American Medical College, with my domicile in the city of 
Baton Rouge, the capital of the State, such a personage as a 
graduated “ horse doctor ” may have been read about, but by the 
majority of the inhabitants had never been seen, and for some 
time I was in the eyes of those good people, a living, walking cu¬ 
riosity, presumed, no doubt, to be endowed with the supernatu¬ 
ral ability to cure all the ills that animal flesh is heir to. In 
time, however, the novelty died out, and it was found that 
the qualified veterinarian, in human form, had none of the mys- 
