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and there are gentlemen in this room to-day who have seen cases 
of Texas fever produced by inoculation, from native to native, that 
has produced death. That is a possibility. I have never known 
such to occur in maJaria. 
Another point worthy of notice in Texas fever, which was en¬ 
tirely ignored, with a view to casting a reflection on everything 
we have done, is the agency in which the virus is transmitted from 
the South to the North. The gentleman has omitted to state that 
in Dr. Smith’s work he says, “ I do not know yet in what agency 
the virus is transmitted to the North, and we are yet in ignorance 
of that fact.” Farmers in the Southwest have known for years that 
some agency could bring Texas fever to the country. They have 
known that urine alone could transmit it. They have known that 
manure alone could do that, and our experiments have simply con¬ 
firmed this opinion. We do not claim to be the first in that dis¬ 
covery. 
Now, gentlemen, I submit to you that if this question was to 
be brought before this Association it should be discussed fairly ; 
there should be no partiality. I am not alluding to anybody per¬ 
sonally, but generally I consider this report unfair to myself, and 
therefore have made the explanation. 
Dr. A. W. Clement: Mr. President, as Chairman of this Com¬ 
mittee, it has been my endeavor to review the work as impartially 
as possible from every standpoint. 
I happen to have been very much interested lately in malarial 
diseases. From reading Dr. Smith’s report it occurred to me that 
Texas fever might be closely allied to malaria; and in making this 
report I laid special stress upon those diseases which I thought 
might be of miasmatic origin. It was certainly not my intention 
to be personal in the matter, and I do not think I can justly be 
accused of such. But every man’s print is public property and is 
liable to criticism. In dealing with these things I have gone into 
them as closely as possible, but it would take the entire time of 
this meeting if every detail was to be fully considered. I simply 
remark that from a review of Dr. Smith’s work in connection 
with malarial diseases, I thought that the germ of Texas fever 
closely resembled that found in malaria. I do not pretend to de- 
