To
VETERINARY-COLONEL A. E. QUERIPEL,
Inspector-General, Civil Veterinary Department, India.
SIR,
I have the honour to submit the second volume of my report on ' Surra.' This includes an account
of Surra in Equines, Bovines, Buffaloes and Canines, together with an account of experiments conducted
with a view to reproduce the disease in animals by means of soiled blood containing the trypanosoma
obtained from rats (Mus decumanus), bandicoots (Mus nesokia giganleus), and different species of
Indian freshwater fish.
The majority of the experiments recorded in this work were conducted during 1891—1893, but
Government sanction to print the results obtained was only received in 1895, just at the time prepara-
tions were being made for the transference of the Laboratory from Poona to Muktesar, Naini Tal Dis-
trict. Unfortunately since that date, owing to pressure of work, it has only now been found feasible
to complete the manuscript, but owing to the delay much additional information with regard to Surra
in different animals has been obtained and added, which otherwise would not have been forthcoming.
The charts showing the records of temperature, water taken, urine passed and total urea excreted,
&c., in connection with certain researches initiated in 1893 with regard to physiological and pathological
observations in equines during a period of health and disease (Surra), have been in some instances
included in this volume.
In the event of the Government of India considering the subject to be of sufficient importance to
sanction the appearance of a third volume, the whole question dealing with the above subject and the
remaining charts will appear in it, together with an account of the minute pathology of the disease
and the life history of the trypanosoma.
I wish again to convey to the following officers and gentlemen my sincere thanks for the information
regarding Surra which they have been good enough to communicate to me, and to Brigadier-General
W. F. Gatacre, C.B., D.S.O., late Adjutant-General, Bombay Army, Colonel T. Deane, Director, Army
Remount Depôt, Messrs. Vincent, Rimington and Buckland for the horses and foxhounds, &c., they
kindly placed at my disposal for the purposes of observation and treatment:—
R. H. Vincent, Esquire, C.I.E., Commissioner of Police, Bombay.
Veterinary-Major J. Mills, Principal, Bombay Veterinary College.
Veterinary-Captain H. T. Pease, Principal, Lahore Veterinary College.
Veterinary-Captain G. H. Evans, Superintendent, C. V. D., Burmah.
Veterinary-Captain S. M. Smith, A. V. D., Remount Depôt, Saharanpur.
Veterinary-Lieutenant F. Eassie, A. V. D., Karnal Government Remount Depôt.
Veterinary-Lieutenant Loughlin, A. V. D., late Superintendent, C. V. D., North-Western
Provinces.
Veterinary-Lieutenant T. G. Peacocke, A. V. D., Karnal Government Remount Depôt.
H. W. Buckland, Esquire, late M. F. H., Bombay.
F. C. Rimington, Esquire, Managing Director, Bombay Tramway Company.
A. Leslie, Esquire, Bombay.
Mr. N. D. Dhakmarwala, Assistant Principal, Bombay Veterinary College
Mr. Judah Hyam, G.B.V.C., in charge of the Poona Veterinary Hospital.
To Mr. M. K. Bamber, Member of the Royal Agricultural College, and late Assistant to the
Imperial Bacteriologist, my special thanks are due for the assistance rendered to me during
my researches into the etiology and treatment of Surra between 1893—1896.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
ALFRED LINGARD,
Imperial Bacteriologist.
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