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PAUL PA QUIN. 
Raillet detected it in France in 1885. Bull. Soc. Centrale de 
Med. Vet., 1885, p. 285. 
Morot detects them in the same country in July, 1885, and 
states that in the lungs of 2,458 cattle examined, over 4 per cent, 
were infected with distoma. Bull. Soc. Centrale, 1887, pp. 38 
and 64. 
Duguid detected it in Edinburgh, Scotland, in April, 1887. 
A. C. Cope, in Veterinarian, June, 1887, p. 386. 
Littlewood detected their presence in the lungs of sheep in 
Egypt. Veterinarian, August, 1887, p. 546. 
These discoveries have all been made independently, the 
greater number having occurred within a year or two. For some 
reason, they have all occurred in the spring; probably because 
the fluke is at that season large and present in the tumors he 
causes. There is reason to believe that these tumors have been 
seen before, but ascribed to different causes, as echinococcus, etc., 
the fluke being absent or overlooked. 
The frequency witli which distoma frequents the lungs pre¬ 
sents to us another phase in its life history which has not yet 
been sufficiently studied. The most rational theory to account 
for its presence there is that the embryo lias passed along the 
trachea instead of the oesophagus, and developed in the bronchige 
instead of the gall ducts. More facts will, however, point out to 
us the truth of the matter. 
TEXAS FEVER AND OTHER DISEASES IN MISSOURI. 
EXTRACTS FROM THE STATE VETERINARY INSPECTOR’S REPORT 
FOR THE FIRST QUARTER UNDER THE VETERINARY ACT 
OF 1887. 
The number of miles traveled officially in the last three months is. 5,760 
The number of counties visited on request, among which several were vis¬ 
ited four or five times. 17 
Number of cattle put in quarantine as capable of communicating Texas 
fever. 677 
Number of deaths from Texas fever, as gathered in personal inspection.... 298 
Approximate number of deaths by Texas fever in the city of St. Louis, as 
gathered from various sources, and exclusive of the above. 506 
One inspection of contagious diseases was made outside of the 
