The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-25
AD. v. $. ON HOG CHOLERA.

That member of the editorial staff Of
tbe Globe whom the irreYerent lads
on the rural press have dubbed the
Josh" is in receipt of a copy of the
Austin Register with an article on hog
cholera marked for his attention. 1t
Is. or purports to be, circular printed
in the Brownsdale Leaf1et, by DR..
Rockwell. who appends to his name
the D. V. S. that indicates graduate
of some school of veterinary surgery.
The Josh has read the Doctors dag
nosis of this fell disease and admits
his Indebtedness to the doctor for his
remarkably lucid contribution to the
therapeutics Of this phase of cholera,
and to the Register for the delightful
half hour the perusal of the document
has afforded him. He now extends to
his several thousand appreciative
friends taste of the pleasure. ;-,
Saws this ID. V. Sand we urge
the closest attention to what he says
and how he says 1T, lest the elusive
Idea escape the reader-says he: "Dr.
Rockwell, state of Minnesota, fully
equipped, has been in presence of the
so-called hog cholera, and has carried
in facts thinking in his best ability
that more hogs have been treated as a
disinfectant of a remedy that is not
sufficient to be administered, has
caused more deaths in the so-called
hog cholera, where if it had been dis
continued that there could have been
a specific remedy in it's action" 1t is
hardly to be expected that D. V. S..
will deviate from that ancient custom
of his allied profession and make use
of unscientific language in addressing
himself to the common and unlettered
understanding. This will account for
q certain muddiness which we find in
the above extract, due solely to pro-
fessional habit of thought and not be-
cause the doctor had not been 'think-
Ing in his best ability" The unlearned
Will, we think, have no difficulty in
getting the idea that the doctor went
fully equipped" into the presence of
hog cholera, carrying in facts with him
as a disinfectant for the remedies that
had been tried, and discovered that if
the hog cholera had only been discon-
tiiued the discontinuance would have
Oeen a specific remedy in it's action -
Not content with his prior investiga-
tions he says he made diagnosis of
a few cases in Mower county claiming
they had hog cholera" Our readers
must not infer that the hogs made any
such claim or that the cases were
those of human beings who made the
claim. Such differences might be
= drawn, but only by those unfamiliar
with the technique of D. V. surgery
He means that some one claimed the
hogs had the cholera. The result OF
the diagnosis was his discovery that
''One-twentieth part of the hog cholera
originated from inbred distinctive
ness" We confess this stumps US
We have consulted all the books of ref
erence in the library to find what Gin
bred distinctiveness" is, but get nc
light Nor can we think that the doc
tor elucidates the meaning when he
goes on to say that "where hogs have
been fed to fulfill the amount of 200 are
80 badly degenerated that they canno
carry their physical power" We are
not clear what this means either, an(
the agricultural editor is off on his va
cation; but if that is what causes sin
bred distinctiveness" the remedy is
simple, either feed them to less thar
the zoo limit or have the hogs droI
their physical power" But this viii
cover only one-twentieth Of the cholera
and dark as this one is the other nine
teen are left in a deeper dark.
If Mower county has read the doc.
tors circular. from which these ex-
tracts are taken, we can agree witt
him in thinking that the county sis
symmetry depressed that there is nc
question that the inbreeding where il
has been traced for ten years ances