108 
C. MILLER. 
winter of 1898 in the Central Western States. This peculiar dis¬ 
ease, as I have learned since, was quite generally distributed over 
four or five States, namely, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Ne¬ 
braska. Other States may have been visited, but not to my 
knowledge ; if so, however, I would be glad to hear the reports 
of any who may have come in contact with it. In giving a 
short history of this disease, I don’t wish it to be understood 
that I take issue with Dr. Stewart in the particular name ap¬ 
plied. 
I have called the affection by the above name simply because 
in my judgment and experience it best suits the pathological 
conditions as I found them. 
My attention was called to this outbreak in the month of 
February, 1898, while practising in Ottumwa, Iowa. Several 
outbreaks occurred in the neighborhood of Blakesburg, and sev¬ 
eral stockmen came to me for information regarding its nature 
and probable outcome. I was simply unable to give them any 
real satisfactory information on the subject, and expressed a de¬ 
sire to go out and see the cases with my own eyes and for my 
own benefit. On close examination and further inquiries into 
the history of these particular cases, I still found myself in 
about as deep water as ever as to a proper scientific name for 
the affection. I frankly admitted my ignorance of the real na¬ 
ture and importance of the trouble, but promised the parties if 
there was any literature on the subject I would certainly look 
it up and be ready to give them some much needed information 
on my next visit. On returning home I sought, wisdom and in¬ 
formation from my esteemed brother, who had practised in the 
State some thirteen years, but without much success, for after 
exhausting the whole curriculum of veterinary terminology we 
came to the conclusion it must be a new disease, and hence our 
duty to give it a name. 
The term used in this article was our mutual and final de¬ 
cision, as a fitting appellation of this so far unknown disease, 
and I will leave it to your judgment as to its correctness or 
otherwise. The history of the first herd in which I found the 
