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in the near future we may speak more highly of its efficacy in 
the horse. 
Veterinara Surgeons of New York and Brooklyn._ 
In the County of New York, according to the Jour, of Com .- 
Med., there are 328 registered' veterinary surgeons, 217 by 
diploma, hi by affidavit ; Kings county has 112 registered 78 
by diploma and 34 by affidavit. 
^HE August Join nal of Comparative Medicine urges the re- 
election of Prof. Stewart as Secretary of the U. S. V. M. A., 
and the Review most cordially seconds the suggestion, being 
sure that the welfare and interests of the association could not 
be more zealously nor faithfully guarded. 
Labor Lighteners. —A veterinarian of national reputation 
concludes Ins letter of August 12th as follows : “ Allow me to 
say that you are making the Review more welcome every 
month, and I sincerely hope that the financial results are on a 
par with its merits as a veterinary publication.” 
Following the example set by the United States with 
pleuro-pneumonia, Austria, which was extensively infested by 
that disease, decided to apply the system of the total abatao-e of 
diseased and contaminated animals and since the first of March 
that country is entirely free from that disease. 
Dr. J. Miller, formerly in private practice at Ottumwa la. 
but for the past several months in the Civil Service Commis¬ 
sion s employ at Last St. Louis, has been placed in charcre of the 
inspection work at the abattoir at Ottumwa. The doctor will 
certainly find it very pleasant to be returned to his old friends. 
Importation of United States Cattle into England. 
Replying to an inquiry in Parliament recently, Mr. Walter 
Long said : The number of cattle imported from the United 
States was approximately 300 in 1875, 400 in 1876, 11,500 in 
1877, 68,000 111 1878. In the last four years the number had 
been : 397,000 111 1892, 249,000 in 1893, 381,000 in 189s, 274,- 
0001111895. 
A New York Veterinarian informs the Review that on 
Tuesday, August nth, he treated seven horses suffering from 
heat-exhaustion in the streets ; that their temperatures registered 
as follows: 108, 109, 107, 108 }4, no, 10714, 109)4an average 
ot 108 14 ; that all recovered from the danger of death, but that 
the horse, having the highest temperature became the subiect of 
acute laminitis. 
