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of time gained a reputation as a skilful, painstaking and con¬ 
scientious veterinarian that his many friends were justly proud 
of. He lectured on scientific horse-shoeing and diseases of 
horses’ feet at Columbia Veterinary College, for a number of 
years, and when that institution became amalgamated with and 
absorbed by the American Veterinary College, he became a 
member of the faculty of the New York College of Veterinary 
Surgeons and filled the chairs of anatomy and physiology until 
1890, when he severed his connection with the last named 
institution and devoted his time exclusively to his extensive 
practice. 
As a practitioner Dr. Hamill was not only extremely skil¬ 
ful, but most painstaking, and above all honest and conscientious 
in all of his dealings. His vast knowledge and great skill were 
employed only in the interest of his clients, and even men 
whose tempers he had ruffled, by a strict and rigid perform¬ 
ance of professional duties, could not help but honor and re¬ 
spect him. He leaves a widow, three sons, two daughters and 
a large circle of personal friends to mourn his unexpected and 
untimely end. G. H. B. 
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Upon the Toxicity of the Muscular Juice of Thyroi- 
dectomized Animals [By G. Vassale and C. Boss /].—The 
thyroidectomized dog, in advanced strumiprive cachexia, fur¬ 
nishes a muscular maceration which, injected after simple fil¬ 
tration, produces a toxic action upon the dog, when introduced 
through the veins. The same preparation with the normal dog 
has no effect. The symptoms are : Stiff and staggering gait, 
with flexion of the hind quarter ; dullness, anorexia, vomiting, fib¬ 
rillar contractions, muscular shakings, tonic and even clonic 
convulsions. The result is positive, whether the operation is 
performed on a normal or a thyroidectomized dog, but offering yet 
no symptoms. The juice filtrated on Pasteur bougie, remains 
without effects. The juice from the liver is less toxic, and that 
of other viscera still less; much more so if injected into the per¬ 
itoneum instead of the veins. The muscular toxicity will be 
greater as the morbid symptoms following the thyroidectomy 
shall have been more severe and long.— (Arch. Ital. Biol.) 
New Observations upon the Diagnostic and Curative 
Effects of the Products of the Bacillus of Glanders 
[By A. Bonome]. — 1st. Mallein promotes in the man suffering 
