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most diseases and conditions which affect the 

 horse. This error was soon corrected. I do not 

 know of a single condition for which I was ever 

 employed to treat horses which I have not also 

 found in mules; excepting, of course, conditions 

 confined to and resulting from pregnancy in the 

 female. Mules with their mammary glands con- 

 gested and containing lacteal secretion I saw 

 frequently. Cases of pregnancy have been re- 

 ported in mules ; I never saw one. 



While I knew our practice here was very large 

 and realized that I was working quite hard, I 

 did not realize the real worth of the business un- 

 til I figured up the day-book at the end of the 

 first month. To my great astonishment I found 

 that we had done nearly eight hundred dollars 

 in total that month. 



Right here I want to bring out a point or 

 two: The fees obtained at that time were not 

 much short of exorbitant and, thinking back, I 

 sometimes wonder how we could get them. Ordi- 

 nary dentistry, floating, was regularly three dol- 

 lars. If we had to cut off a long enamel point 

 with the cutters, we charged a dollar extra. 

 "Wolf teeth" were half a dollar each, extra. It 

 was nothing unusual to have a total charge of 

 five dollars for "fixing" a mouth. Night calls 

 had a fixed fee of five dollars, even if only a 

 few blocks from the office. In a case of flatulent 

 colic, tapping was counted as an operation and 

 five dollars was added to the service for this per- 

 formance. 



A big revenue was derived at that time from 



