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OBITUARY. 
J. F. McGRATH, D.Y.S. 
We have received the sad news of the death of Dr. J. F. 
McGrath of Pawtucket, R. I., which took place on the 16th 
of August, from typhoid fever. Dr. McGrath graduated in the 
American Veterinary College, class 1887. Respected by all, ’ 
he had many friends, and his loss is keenly felt by those who 
knew him. As a practitioner, he was very successful, and, 
in the few years of his professional life had succeeded in get¬ 
ting a good reputation as a veterinarian. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
Hillsboro, O., September 22, 1891. 
Editor A merican Veterinary Review: 
I See it is the sense of the last meeting of the Ohio State' 
Veterinary Association that “ horses with undeveloped testi¬ 
cles are not reproductive, but that bulls, rams and boars often 
are.” 
I have taken the liberty of presenting a few words from 
“Sexual Impotence in the Male, (Human,) by Wm. A.sHarm 
mond, Surgeon General U. S. A.,” etc. 
Speaking of hidden testicles he says as follows ; “ In such 
instances it is usually the case they are atrophied, and that 
the sexual power of the individual is very materially lessened. 
In those cases in which only one testicle has failed to descend 
into the scrotum the ability to have intercourse is not usually 
markedly diminished, but when both have been retained it is 
almost invariably the case that the individual has neither 
desire nor power, neither orgasm nor emission of semen. In 
fact, he assumes in many respects, the mental and physical 
attributes of the female sex. These phenomena are due, not 
to the original absence of the organs, but to the fact that 
owing to the abnormal position they occupy, they have not 
undergone the development which occurs at puberty, and 
that consequently they fail to secrete semen. Besides this, 
the organs suffer a positive atrophy, as indeed does every 
