CORRESPONDENCE. 
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apparently normal ; left kidney showed every appearance of 
acute nephritis. Heart seemed normal; widespread emphysema 
of lungs, kidneys, heart, liver and peritoneum ; liver and lungs 
presented patches of emphysema six inches in diameter ; stomach 
and intestines filled with dark fluid having a very offensive 
odor ; mucous membrane of small and large intestines dark in 
color and covered with thick layer of mucus ; fat in and about 
abdominal muscles unusually yellow and easily torn. I sub¬ 
mitted a portion of all the organs, with some of contents of 
stomach and bladder, to a chemist and bacteriologist, Dr. 
David H. Baldwin, of Montclair, who stated that after submit¬ 
ting the organs to the usual tests, he failed to find any trace of 
mineral poison of any kind ; under microscopic examination the 
kidneys showed marked structural change ; urine was impreg¬ 
nated with albumen, tubular casts were present in enormous 
numbers and cells from the deeper portions of the uriniferous 
tubules; presence of urea in liver and kidneys in undue amount 
indicated uremia. In his opinion acute nephritis and uremic 
poisoning were present. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
THE BITE TO CREATE A NEW YORK STATE VETERINARIAN. 
Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 26, 1897. 
Editors American Veterinary Review : 
Dear Sirs :— I trust you will allow me, through the valu¬ 
able medium of the Review, to acknowledge publicly the au¬ 
thorship of the bill now before the New York legislature, creat¬ 
ing the position of State Veterinarian. I have decided to do so 
by this means, and not to individual members of the profession, 
after its introduction, so that it could be criticised without a 
knowledge of its source, and, having heard some criticism, chief 
of which seems to be the fear that by reason of so many bills 
extending privileges to those anxious to enter the profession by 
legislation instead of education, that this might be one of those 
bills leading up to the same sort of thing or something worse. 
Having been engaged continuously in cattle practice for seven 
or eight years, first under the United States government, and 
now by the Brooklyn city government, I have naturally be¬ 
come interested in the cattle industry of our own State, and by 
reason of my official position in this city I have been painfully 
brought to the conclusion that there was no official veterinarian 
who could be referred to—as in other States—as to the health 
