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JAMES LAW. 
and who wanted to commence an attack on the administration, 
had picked me, because I had widened my knowledge of medi¬ 
cine in learning the scientific truths of diverse animal life instead 
of limiting it to that of one animal, man, and, found opprobrium 
in the title of “ Horse Doctor.” To me personally the attacks 
of that portion of the press were like water on a duck’s back. I 
knew that I had the confidence and recognition of my work, 
which was all I desired, of the President, of the Secretary of 
War, of General Miles, and of my own Commanding General, 
Major-General Brooke, now Governor-General of Cuba. I knew 
that the First Army Corps, of which I had the medical charge, 
had a better organization, better hospitals, more medical sup¬ 
plies, and, up to the time I left Chickamauga for Puerto Rico, 
a smaller sick list and death rate than that of the other corps of 
the army. All this is record in the official papers in Washing¬ 
ton, and will be history when they are published. Therefore, I 
had no cause to regret that I was, and I am proud that I am, a 
veterinarian. 
FATAL PNEUMOMYCOSIS IN THE HORSE. 
By James Paw, M. R. C. V. S., Ithaca, N. Y. 
Dean of the Nezv York State Veterinary College. 
Read before the New \ ork State Veterinary Medical Society, September 9, 1899. 
I wish to draw attention to some of the clinical features of a 
miciobian affection of the horse, which so far as T know has not 
been described in veterinary literature. The bacteriological 
character of the disease will be treated of by Dr. Moore. 
The fiist intimation of the disease came to 11s in a letter from 
Dr. Chailes H. Cook, of Rochester, which will sufficiently ex¬ 
plain itself. He says : u I was called about fourteen miles 
northeast of here yesterday, in consultation with Dr. Burns, of 
Fairport, to see some horses. There were three* horses origi¬ 
nally, all on the farm, and all were taken Dec. 10 : pulse 65 ; 
temperature 101.4 ; lips cracked, somewhat swollen ; throat 
sore ; some difficulty in swallowing, but ate a little. Dec. 11 : 
