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M. R. TRUMBOWER. 
“Glanders, hog cholera, and a few cases of pneumonia 
among cattle have been reported. A quite extensive outbreak 
of hydrophobia prevailed among hogs, dogs, and cattle during 
the spring and early summer. Have no information on 
tuberculosis.” 
Dr. Wm. Gribble, of Washington Court House, writes: 
“ I cannof say that we have been over-burdened with any 
disease the past year. Influenza has been especially prevalent, 
but this locality’s bugbear is tetanus, of which we have an 
abnormal share ; why, we could never ascertain. In this let¬ 
ter I might state that we have experimented in destroying 
horses, and find that 48 calibre bullets, with brain running 
down over face, did not cause death in less than eight to twelve 
minutes. Enormous doses of morphia allows them to live 
quite a long time. Also aconite, digitalis, etc.; but a fifteen 
grain saturated solution of sulphate of strychnia (using boil¬ 
ing water), injected directly into the trachea, will cause death 
in from one to four minutes, according to the size and strength 
of the horse.” 
I will now introduce a letter from a veterinarian who has 
grown old in the love of his profession; one who has always 
been up to all the advancement of the science, and whose 
concise diction all of the older members will readily recognize 
—Dr. John C. Meyer, Sr., of Cincinnati: 
“Yours of the 10th ult-, came to hand in due time. After 
reading its contents, I observed that the questions are neither 
many, nor difficult to answer, and would be pleased to supply 
you with some important information, but such is not at hand 
from the fact that I retired from business two years ago owing 
to some defectiveness in my nervous and digestive functions, 
though not to such a degree as to make me lose all interest 
in our professional welfare. Consequently I take the liberty 
to make a few remarks relating to it. 
“ So far as I remember there has been no disease particularly 
prevalent within the last two or three years except hsemo- 
globinuria, which I have often heard mentioned b} T my son and 
his assistant, Dr. Tritschler. Glanders likewise received some 
attention. Pulmonary complaints demanded less professional 
