CORRESPONDENCE——OBITUARY. 
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CORRESPONDENCE. 
ANTHRAX OR TEXAS FEVER. 
State University, ) 
Columbia, Mo., Nov. 10, 1887. $ 
Editor American Veterinary Review : 
Dear Sir. —Dr. J. Dutcliffe, V. S. of Middletown, New 
Jersey, asks the readers of the Review to throw light if possible 
on the cases of anthrax in which he found bloody urine, softened 
and enlarged spleen, dark kidneys, etc. May I suggest that per¬ 
haps these cases were the so-called “ Texas fever.” The symp¬ 
toms that the Dr. describes are present in this malady, and char¬ 
acteristic features of it. 
I send you to-day an extract of my last quarterly report as 
State Veterinarian of Missouri. You will find “ Texas fever” 
extensively described in that little pamphlet. It was not written 
for the profess’on and is not perhaps entitled to any space in a 
scientific professional journal. Yet there may be something in it 
to throw a slight ray of light on Dr. Dutcliffe’s cases, and others 
of similar nature. 
Your obedient servant, 
Paul Paquin. 
ETHICAL INQUIRY. 
Editor Review : 
I would like to inquire through your columns whether the 
Board of Examiners of the Ontario Veterinary College ever 
created a fellowship, or if they have authority to confer that 
degree, and if so, on how many persons have they conferred that 
honor ? 
Respectfully, Ethics. 
OBITUARY. 
Dr. R. P. Blakely, who had been for a number of years 
practising in the northern part of New York State, died some 
four weeks ago, after a long illness. He graduated at the Amer 
ican Veterinary College, in the Class of 1876, 
