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detained, and to insure the sanitary inspection of their meat be¬ 
fore it goes to the market. 
Registering in New York State. —Many practitioners in 
New York State had failed to register when the books closed 
on July i, 1895, and they then realized what an amount of 
trouble they had precipitated upon themselves by thus failing to 
perform a very easy obligation, and a duty which should not 
have been left undone. When, therefore, a bill became a law on 
the 2 2d of May giving all graduated men two more months in 
which to become registered, by unanimous recommendation 
of the State Examining Board, they rushed precipitately to avail 
themselves of the opportunity thus afforded, and the county 
clerks have had considerable business on their hands of this 
nature. 
Some Questions for Veterinarians.—D o you keep up 
with the times ? . . . Do you read the American Veterinary 
Review ? . . . Do you keep a record of your cases ? . . . Do 
you hold post-mortems ? . . . Do yon report cases in the Amer¬ 
ican Veterinary Review? if not, why not? ... Do you in 
any way try to advance the profession you have selected as your 
life work? . . . Do you ever attend veterinary society meet¬ 
ings ? . . . Do you meet other veterinarians and talk over modes 
of treatment ? . . . Do you use drugs—hypodermically ? . , . 
Do you supply your own drugs ? . . . Do you present your bills 
on the first of each month ? . . . Do you get the money ? . . . 
Do you charge extra for night calls ? F. X. T. 
How Easy it is to Err.—A well-known veterinarian said 
the other day that his assistant had been treating a case of colic, 
which had been quite persistent, and many injections of morphia 
had been given. Upon hearing of alarming symptoms the Doc¬ 
tor himself hastened to the patient, and found the animal giving 
unmistakable evidence of oesophageal choke, food and water be¬ 
ing ejected through the nostrils, a distinct hard enlargement ap¬ 
pearing in the gullet, three inches below the larynx, and painful 
efforts being made to swallow without accomplishing it. He 
had the horse sent to his infirmary, and notified the owner that 
he should probably have to perform a delicate operation. He 
placed the patient under local antispasmodic and oleaginous 
treatment, and gradually the symptoms disappeared, the ob¬ 
struction proving to be a subcutaneous abscess, due to the in¬ 
jection of morphia immediately over the oesophagus. Doesn’t 
this emphasize the instructions not to inject over the seat of im- 
