TEXAS FEVER AND OTHER DISEASES IN MISSOURI. 
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State of Missouri, with a view of preventing introduction within 
our borders. This was the investigation of the contagious dis¬ 
ease brought into Illinois among the valuable imported breeding 
horses, stallions and mares, and which proved to be what is known 
as “ maladie du coit,” a syphilitic malady of the equine specie, 
hitherto unknown in America, but existing in Africa, and occa¬ 
sionally imported into France, whence it came to this country. 
Number of horses quarantined for glanders. 9 
* Number of horses or mules killed, solely by request, on account of glanders 13 
(About twenty-eight head had died previously in connection 
with these cases). 
Number of deaths by a malignant form of charbon, or an¬ 
thrax, as follows: 
Cattle. 8 
Horses or mules. 5 
Hogs. 7 
Dogs. 1 
Two men are now suffering, and far from saved, apparently 
from malignant pustule contracted in skinning one of the afore¬ 
said cattle. These deaths have all occurred in two outbreaks. 
The first, in the county of Vernon, killed the five horses or mules 
and six cattle, on one and the same pasture, at short intervals, 
while a few other cattle are supposed to have also died from the 
same malady, judging from reports given me. The latter out¬ 
break was in Livingston County, where two cattle died first, then 
the hogs and a dog that ate flesh of the carcasses. 
TEXAS FEVER. 
ANTHRAX DISEASE, SOMETIMES CALLED SPANISH FEVER, SPLENIC FEVER, ETC. 
The most prevalent disease which the Veterinary Inspector 
was called to attetid this summer was Texas fever, so called. 
Indeed it broke out at so many places at short intervals that 
this officer was frequently unable to do justice to sufferers from 
* One man, Mr. H. S. Pierce, of Burlington Junction, Notaway County, 
Mo., is now himself suffering from glanders. He was accidentally inoculated in 
treating a horse that I ordered destroyed recently. This is the fourth case of 
glanders in man brought to the notice of the State Veterinarian in the last 
three years, 
