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TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING 
Dr. Salmon: What I said was, I could not undertake to re¬ 
cognize the germ outside of the red blood corpuscle because of the 
peculiar characteristics of it. We think it cannot be seen' 
outside of it. I do not say it is not in the urine and in the 
bile, but I do say that the gentlemen who have studied it in 
the West have not given us any definite description of it so that 
we could recognize it outside of the blood corpuscles. It may be 
that they have produced the disease in the way they say, but I 
question the diagnosis. IIow do you know ? What were the 
germs which you produced ? Give us a definite description of 
them, and then we will accept your conclusion. Until you do this 
we must proceed to further investigation, and at least conclude 
that the subject is in doubt. 
Dr. Hawkins: Before closing this discussion, I would like to 
know whether the germ of this disease is destroyed entirely by 
the cold weather. Several years ago, while practicing in Canada, 
we had Texas fever in a herd that was brought in there by some 
cattle that had been unloaded on account of an accident. The 
next season we had a breaking out of Texas fever on the same 
farm, but not having any Texas cattle or any that had come in 
contact with Texas cattle on the place that season, it seemed 
strange. I have understood that the cold weather would destroy 
this germ. 
Dr. Adair: What time of the year was this accident ? 
Dr. Hawkins: The latter part of August or the fore part of 
September. The fever broke out the next year about the same 
time. 
Dr. Winchester : If the subject of Texas fever has been thor¬ 
oughly discussed I would like to make a statement in regard to 
tuberculosis. If my memory serves me right, at the conference at 
Berlin last month Dr. Koch made a statement that he thought he 
had found something that controlled the action of the bacillus 
of tuberculosis in animals, and also that something was written and 
put in a sealed letter given to the Academy of Medicine, at Paris, 
some twelve months before Koch made that statement, by two 
Frenchmen whose names I do not recall. I only make the state¬ 
ment to show that the same investigation had been held and the 
