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rexia and adipsia were manifest. The peritoneal edge of the 
wound healed without suppuration and the rest of it by 
granulation. 
She gave enough milk all the time to nourish the calf, and 
finally furnished an abundance of it for other uses. I saw 
both on the 17th inst. 
The calf is fat and saucy. The cow is still giving a good 
flow of milk and one has to hunt carefully in her flank to dis¬ 
cover any trace of her former trouble. 
Of course the owner is abundantly satisfied. The work 
brought me a little money and perhaps a greater value in 
reputation reputation, which the physician, as well as the 
immoital Shakespeare well knows, is “ oft got without merit 
and lost without deserving.” 
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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON DISEASE, 
By M. R. Trumbower, Chairman. 
Read before the United States Veterinary Medical Association. 
('Continued from page 557). 
While making this investigation, a number of individuals 
spoke aoout having been troubled with chinch bugs more or 
less for the past two or three years, but more extensively last 
year than at any previous time ; that they seemed to leave 
the wheat-fields and oats and get into the corn, and in many 
fields practically ruined acres and acres of corn. I was in 
many stables, and invariably examined the fodder and the 
straw, and in all instances where the disease had appeared in 
a severe form, the leaves near the stalk were filled with 
dead chinch bugs and their moultings. We could not pick 
off one leaf in a hundred which did not contain some dead 
bugs. Now the question arising in my mind is this, is it 
possible for chinch bugs, when they exist in the fodder to such 
an extent, to cause an irritation of the membranes, such as 
was manifested in this outbreak? In many inquiries which I 
have made I failed to discover any reports that observations 
have been made where disease was attributed to fodder or ; 
