Excerpt from Special Report on Maladie Du Coit or Dourine: November, 1907 As the detailed reports of Drs. Higgins and Watson are in themselves very full and complete, I leave to these gentlemen the task of presenting the results of their scientific labours, and confine myself to a short historical review of our experience with this disease since the first discovery of its existence in Canada. In this review there will, naturally, be but little new information, most of the facts having been already submitted in previous annual reports, but, for the sake of convenience, I have thought it best to summarize them, together with some intervening data as an explanatory introduction to the more strictly technical contributions which follow. The presence of dourine in Canada was discovered in 1904 when Inspector Burnett, Chief Veterinary Officer of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, and at that time also an official of this branch, reported its existence in a stallion and several mares owned by a rancher near Lethbridge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.