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lants or heart tonics I use them, otherwise I give no medicine 
except intestinal antiseptics, preferably the sulpho-carbolates. 
Forced nutrition in the form of small balls of ground meat, beef 
extract and eggs are all essential to the treatment. The mor¬ 
tality in cases reached in the early stages rarely exceeds 15 per 
cent. If the diarrhea develops, starch and opiates may be given 
as an enema. 
Summary .—A protozoon disease, produced by an unclassi¬ 
fied organism invading the mucous glands of the mouth, asso¬ 
ciated with pyogenic streptococci. Systemic disturbances pro¬ 
duced by the absorption of the products of the two organisms 
and death from toxaemia. All dogs are subject to the disease and 
one attack does not confer immunity. 
Note —There are many things concerned with the organism that remain to be worked 
out. I am calling it a protozoa, however, this remains to be proven. I only offer 
these few findings in advance in order that I may be instrumental in causing others 
to work along the same lines. I am thereby obtaining the facts in connecticn with this 
much dreaded Southern disease of dogs. 
The Alpha Psi Fraternity recently installed two new chap¬ 
ters, the seventh and eighth of the group. 
The Eta chapter was installed in the Division of Veterinary 
Medicine of the Kansas State Agricultural College, at Man¬ 
hattan, on April 5, 1912, by Dr. H. E. Kingman, of Fort 
Collins, Colo., president of the National Council. The chap¬ 
ter was started with eight active members and four honorary 
members, Drs. Schoenleber, Burt, Dykstra and Rogers of the 
Faculty. The constitution and the by-laws of the Eta chapter 
make scholarship of paramount importance as far as eligibility 
to membership is concerned. 
The Theta chapter was established in the College of Veter¬ 
inary Medicine of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, at Au¬ 
burn, on April 5, 1912, by Dr. A. M. Jansen, of Columbus, 
Ohio, treasurer of the National Council. He was assisted in the 
installation ceremonies by Dr. D. J. Meador, of Selma, Ala. 
The chapter organized with twelve active members and three 
honorary members, Drs. Cary, Hallman and Howell of the 
Faculty. 
