NOVEMBER, 1877 . 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
TEXAS FEVER. 
By John Myers, Sr., V. S., Cincinnati, Ohio. 
The daily news are now*circulating reports of the so-called Texas 
cattle plague prevailing in Cleveland, and in some parts of Michigan. 
This put me in mind again of an article on the same subject I had writ¬ 
ten, and intended for the Repertorium der Thierheilkun.de , that journal 
having several times referred to the disease. The delay of transferring 
it to its contemplated destination is due to the intention of adding to 
the description, if possible, a more diagnostic value by the analysis of 
the blood, but have not, to the present date, been able to procure any, 
as the disease has not made its appearance since in this vicinity. Now, 
the article does not correspond altogether with the present state of 
affairs, but I will submit it just as it was composed at that time to the 
Review, the standard messenger of the interests of American veteri¬ 
narians, to disclose if agreeable. 
The scrupulous management of the sanitary police ordination on 
the eastern continent partly, and partly the contemplated exportation of 
American cattle induced me to draw the attention of the veterinary 
medical profession to this enzootic, viz.: Texas cattle plague, Texas 
fever, Spanish fever, and splenic fever, the propagation of which is 
thought to be produced by contagion. The virus generated within cat¬ 
tle of the Gulf region (being endowed with mysterious properties), winch 
is transferred by them in the eastern and central States, where they 
deposit and diffuse the malady amongst the cattle with which they come 
in contact, whilst their own health remains unimpaired. 
Considering these circumstances, it is quite probable that the 
authorities of such districts in which foreign cattle are unloaded will 
enforce protective measures against the invasion of plagues, and, more- 
