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W. H. DALRYMPLE. 
ANTHRAX: PREVENTIVE INOCULATION IN LOUISIANA. 
By W. H. Daery t mple, M.R.C.V.S., Baton Rouge, La. 
A Paper read before the American Veterinary Medical Association, Sept. 5, 1901. 
I had expected to be omitted from the programme on this 
occasion, but our worthy Secretary seemed to experience the 
usual difficulty in getting some of the younger members “ roped 
in ” to present papers, and’being anxious that the subject of an¬ 
thrax and preventive inoculation should be brought up, on ac¬ 
count of its apparently wider prevalence and distribution 
throughout the country, I felt constrained, though somewhat 
reluctantly, to accede to his urgent appeal—and we all know 
the inimitable way Dr. Stewart has of placing a fellow hors-de- 
combat when it comes to work connected with the interests of 
the A.V.M.A. I say reluctantly, not from waning interest, by 
any means, in the welfare of the association, but simply from 
lack of time at my disposal to prepare a paper that would be at 
all creditable for presentation at the representative assemblage 
of the veterinary profession of America, or do justice to a sub¬ 
ject of such immense importance, when viewed from the stand¬ 
point of the vast livestock interests of the country, and more 
particularly, perhaps, our Gulf group of States. I will have to 
crave your indulgence, therefore, if my hurriedly prepared pro¬ 
duction should not approach the standard for an occasion such 
as this. 
I think I can truthfully say that the control of anthrax, and 
the possible eradication of the infection, is one of the most pro¬ 
found problems that confronts the agriculturist and stockowner, 
as well as the veterinary profession, in Louisiana and the con¬ 
tiguous States. Such an unfortunate condition as has existed, 
and as at present exists, with us, is to my mind solely due, up 
to within recent years, to ignorance of the true nature of the 
disease, and of the most effective sanitary measures for its con¬ 
trol. 
It is unnecessary to go into the ancient history of anthrax. 
All of you who keep up with our fatal animal plagues must be 
