CORRESPONDENCE. 
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the surgical clinic of a veterinary school and that performed on 
a valuable animal in private practice.” Certainly. But what 
veterinary school performs “ an experimental operation upon a 
worthless animal in the surgical clinics”? We know of none, 
and if Dr. M. graduated from such an institution we pity them 
both. But if so, does it warrant Dr. M. in classing all institu¬ 
tions with that one ? 
The operations which Dr. M. so indiscriminately assails are 
not experiments, but have been proven in the best veterinary 
practices in Europe and America. If M. refers to the Ameri¬ 
can operations, most of them were studied out in his own State, 
some of them in a country practice within 50 miles of him, and 
were proven before Dr. M. entered the profession, and were used 
on animals of as high average value as are kept in Dr. M.’s ter¬ 
ritory. All of the operations have been and are now regularly 
used on good animals and the results have been made public on 
their merits. 
Continuing on p. 748 of the same article Dr. M. very nearly 
commits an “ innovation ” himself by reference to the “ rod-like 
bacilli ” of malaria. Until Dr. M. publishes full details of his 
recent discovery as to the etiology of malaria we would suggest 
that readers of the Review shall not abruptly desert the views 
of all the other modern investigators to the effect that the para¬ 
site belongs to the protozoa and accept the views of Dr. M. that 
it is caused by a bacillus. Very respectfully, 
W. L. Williams. 
ILLINOIS VETERINARY EXAMINING BOARD—A REPLY TO DR. 
SWAIN. 
Chicago, Feb. 12th, 1901. 
Editors American Veterinary Review ; 
Dear Sirs :—I little thought that when I took a random 
shot at the committee of the Illinois Veterinary Medical and 
Surgical Society, that I was going to hit the king bee of the 
hornet’s nest. But such seems to have been my luck. He 
says so, and his groanings indicate that he has been hit hard. I 
will not take up your valuable space by attempting to answer 
the Doctor’s charges in detail ; in fact, such a course is rendered 
unnecessary by the Doctor himself, as I could string no words 
together that would emphasize more strongly the position I 
took in my last epistle than the learned Doctor has himself 
done for me in his letter. The “ dementia ” the doctor speaks 
of has been much in evidence. In fact, it is an all-pervading 
