NEWS AND ITEMS. 
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The New \ork County V. M. Association meets this 
'T 7 r * v • | ^ ^ ^ ^ qualified men in 
kings, Queens Richmond, Suffolk and Westchester Counties 
are now eligible for membership. This can easily be made the 
strongest working association in this country, and all metro- 
po itan veterinarians should send in their applications to the 
Secretary, Dr. Robert W. Ellis, 531 West i 5 2d Street, New 
. More Cheering Words. —A veterinarian of the South 
writes under date of Sept. 8th, and we take the liberty of ex¬ 
tracting a paragraph referring to this publication : “ ' The 
REVIEW has easily taken the foremost rank of American veteri- 
nary pub ications. ... It is essentially an American veterinary 
review, and it does not give any evidence of being published for 
e aggrandizement of any one of its editors, nor of any graduate 
of any particular school, even though it is owned and' edited bv 
two professors of a school from which I did not graduate.” 
Death of Charles F. Douglass, D.V.S.— By a late issue 
of the Jamaica Post , published at Kingston, Jamaica, West 
. . les ’ "j e earn °f the sad death from fever of the above prom¬ 
ising and popular member of the veterinary profession. Gradu- 
uated from the American Veterinary College in 1892, he had 
been practicing 111 Ins native city until a few months ago when 
he accepted a government position in Hayti, and had just 
assumed charge of his new duties when the fatal fever attacked 
h ’™. ^ *f e " ls that dea t h is especially active among the alumni 
■oi the A. V. C. 
Pasteur Vaccine Company, Limited.— The advertisement 
ot tills company is printed elsewhere. It was formerly the 
Pasteur Anthrax Vaccine Co., but they have enlarged "their 
business by going extensively into the manufacture of tubercu¬ 
lin, and hence the change. They have recently moved into 
more commodious quarters in Fifth Ave., Chicago, and are 
prepared to furnish corporations and individuals with a pure 
article oi the latest serums at moderate prices. Mr. Harold 
oorby is manager of the branch for the United States and 
Canada, and the character of their productions is worthv the 
•confidence of the public. 
Cribbing Cured by the Electric Current. —A valuable 
six-year-old trotting horse formed the habit of crib bitino- on the 
manger and parts of the stall. It became so persistent "that he 
ell a victim of indigestion. The owner put in an induction 
