INFECTIOUS ULCER. 
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INFECTIOUS ULCER OF THE VULVA OF CATTLE. 
By Dr. C. Miller, St. Louis, Mo. 
Read before the Missouri Veterinary Medical Association, October, 1900. 
In presenting this short paper on the above mentioned dis¬ 
ease my object is not to add anything particularly new or 
important, although this may be to many of those present, to 
the domain of veterinary pathology, but rather to assist, if pos¬ 
sible, in furnishing some reliable literature on a disease, though 
so far uncommon, yet sufficiently important to demand our stu¬ 
dious attention. 
In contributing this article, therefore, the object will be 
twofold : 1st. Following out the oft-repeated adage that a care¬ 
ful observer makes a skillful practitioner, but his skill dies with 
him unless by recording his observations he thus adds to the 
knowledge of his profession in general, and thereby assists by 
such facts in building up a strong edifice of veterinary science. 
2d. By giving a somewhat accurate description of the disease 
in question, and my limited experience with it, I hope to not 
only make it easy for other members of the profession, especially 
the younger members, who may chance to read this article, to 
recognize the affection immediately, but to intelligently treat 
the malady with professional accuracy and certainty, and not be 
left as your humble colleague to diagnose, instruct and treat a 
disease which he had not even heard of or seen before ; hence 
without any previous knowledge or assistance of any kind. I 
well remember the embarrassing position I was placed in, and 
it is with a view of preventing you from being caught in a sim¬ 
ilar circumstance that I present this paper at this particular 
meeting. To the best of my knowledge, and I have made some 
considerable inquiries along this line, there is only one article 
on this disease on record, and that is a paper contributed by our 
worthy colleague, Dr. S. Stewart, and read before the M. V. M. 
A. in the summer of 1898 at their meeting in Kansas City. 
Doubtless many of you have seen or heard more or less of this 
affection, especially those of you who were practising during the 
