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divisional veterinary surgeons. Any veterinary jurgeon 

 may be called in for urgent assistance, or the advanced 

 collecting stations of veterinary hospitals may be used 

 For more serious surgical action, veterinary hospital surgeons 

 will give their services. 



In Messenger Dog Sections it is advisable to erect a 

 kennel for sick dogs with an infectious kennel separa 

 therefrom, and also that too large detachments of dogs be 

 not housed together, in order that the spread of any infec- 

 tious disease may be limited. 



The most usual dressings for wounds are in charge of 

 the shoeing smiths, or veterinary assistants, attached to 

 the first-line transport. All other drugs required will be 

 demanded by the veterinary surgeon concerned, and will 

 be obtainable, in cases where they are not to bo procured 

 from the veterinary supply waggons, or bearer companies, 

 from the advanced depot of medical stores. 



At the suggestion of the competent veterinary surgeon, 

 a small store of the most necessary drugs and dressings 

 may be kept at Messenger Dog Sections in a small medicine 

 chest made for the purpose. The storage of a small quantity 

 of " Kamala " (for curing worms) at advanced depots of 

 medical stores will be arranged for. 



Distemper serum, as well as all other drugs, is to be 

 applied for by the competent veterinary surgeon through 

 the divisional veterinary surgeon, or the army veterinary 

 surgeon, as the case may be, from the advanced depot of 

 medical stores, which will obtain the scrum from the Berlin 

 Army Veterinary School." 



It is apparent from the carefully-thought-out detail 

 this report that very great importano was atta I to 

 the messenger dogs by the German Higher Command. 



