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under the general practitioner’s treatment, as they are looked 
after by the Federal inspector, who superintends the dipping of 
these animals when they are transported from one place to 
another. Stomach staggers was another disease wlhich I had 
considerable trouble with and a disease which was very fre¬ 
quently mistaken for encephalitis, meningitis, and cerebritis, 
etc., and I do not think there was any mistake in their being 
some brain affection, but it was due to the impacted state of the 
stomach; this impaction usually occurring in the spring when 
the feed was scarce and they were compelled to pick up whatever 
dead grasses or other roughage they could find. The result was 
indigestion, constipation and impaction. The treatment ordi¬ 
narily used in this state did not seem to be effective, such as 
aloes, oils with nerve tonics, etc., but repeated doses of glauber 
salts or magnesium sulphate in pound doses given every six or 
twelve hours for sometimes four or five days, before you would 
get any action from the bowels. Nux vomica, digitalis, aromatic 
spirits of ammonia, and alcohol given every two to four hours, 
etc. Altogether, the treatment of different diseases in the South¬ 
west seemed to be more effective under a different line of treat¬ 
ment to what we are accustomed to here. 
Shortly after going to Texas, I was appointed Inspector of 
the Cattle Sanitary Board, and instructed to let nothing pass 
over the border from that side into New Mexico without inspec¬ 
tion for the following diseases: Glanders, farcy, maladie du 
coit, southern cattle fever or tick fever (Texas fever), actino¬ 
mycosis, rinderpest, foot-and-mouth disease, contagious kera¬ 
titis, scabies, and tuberculosis (certified certificate showing record 
of tuberculin test must accompany cattle intended for dairy and 
breeding purposes) ; Rosefelt and Clay counties being at that 
time under quarantine for glanders, and during the time I was 
there had a good deal of experience testing cattle for tubercu¬ 
losis. 
The Southwest is not a place where the veterinarian who 
has any kind of a practice here at all wants to go unless he goes 
into the Federal service; and the B. A. I. is in need of a great 
