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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON DISEASE. 
help. Indeed the expression, 4 dull times/ which seemed 
almost proverbial in every branch of business, invaded the 
veterinary branch as well. The answer to the question, ‘ How 
is the stock ? ’ invariably was, “ Better than ever.’ Even Texas 
fever was not reported any more, either officially or privately. 
However, since the concerted action of the Live Stock Com¬ 
mission and veterinarians the ordinances pertaining to it have 
ceased to be a dead letter, at least in this district. Our stock- 
yards are now exempt from such cattle, where they were 
usually sent .without hindrance, distributing their virus, 
causing alarm, and heavy loss, which was a grave misdemeanor 
of the past. 
‘ “ I was somewhat disgusted with the Hamburg muddle 
last year, and could not believe it until the Berliner Thierarzt- 
liche Wochenschrift published the account, the Cincinnati 
Commercial Gazette of the 19th, 20th, and 21st of July, reported 
an outbreak and spreading of the same epizootic in Louisville, 
Ky., and on August 7th, the same paper states that the mor¬ 
tality among cattle from the fever in middle Tennessee is 
alarming. If such reports gain currency, what will become 
of the United States Sanitary Administration? 
“When I commenced practicing in Cincinnati this pesti¬ 
lence caused consternation among the dairy people; their loss 
was immense, and they were timorous about replacing their 
stock before the cold weather set in'. Their calamity urged 
me to become acquainted with the characteristics of this 
plague, wherefore I made a number of post mortem ex¬ 
aminations. 
“ Unimportant as it may seem to make mention of the fever 
remedy, acetanilid or antifebrin, officially recommended as 
reducing temperature and circulation, particularly in infec¬ 
tious morbidity, I now and then find deprecatory remarks 
about it in veterinary journals, which are apt to discourage 
some from giving it a fair trial, thus depriving them of a 
reliable expedient for shortening undue suffering. Un¬ 
doubtedly, unfavorable results are due to avoidable causes. 
Its administraion has never disappointed me, and I have used it 
almost exclusively since 1883 (the only other antifebrile agent 
