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s trouble a slight increase in the weight of the outside 
web of the hind shoes is found beneficial. 
E. E. M.’s treatment of quarter-crack is good, but I would 
add a little more, by making a transverse fissure just at the su¬ 
perior point of the crack. "This is done with any cautery or 
firing iron, and allows motion of the edges of the original split 
without extending it farther up, and, as the hoof grows, the 
split will gradually grow off, leaving the hoof sound above the 
transverse fissure. 
Calks. As calks are always objectionable, and are only used 
as a matter of necessity, we here in the valleys have some ad¬ 
vantage in this line, as there is no necessity for calks, only in a 
few instances, on draft teams in the cities, where the streets are 
kept sprinkled, or on heavy freight teams going over mountain 
roads, as there is no snow or ice to contend with. 
F. O. Richmond, M. D. C. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
Anesthetics^ in \ eterinary Surgery (Anaesthesiques en Chirurgie Veterinaire). 
By Mr. G. Desoubry, adjunct of Physiology and '1 herapeutics at Alfort. Asselin 
and Houzeau, Paris. 
A little volume of over ioo pages, with some illustrations, 
where the subjects of anaesthesia, general and local, are concisely 
treated in eight chapters. After some general remarks on the 
physiology of anaesthesia, the uses of chloroform, chloral and 
ether are extensively presented, and their applications considered 
in the various classes of animals. The mixed methods fol¬ 
low and occupy an important part. The local anaesthetic, 
with its generalities and its special modes of application, fills the 
last part of this little work, which is presented to the veterinar¬ 
ians by a preface from Professor Kaufmann. 
NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Samuel D. Bicker, V.M.D., has graduated from the Medical 
Department of the University of Pennsylvania. 
The extensive practice of the late James Hamill, V.S., of 
New York, has been purchased by John J. Hayes, D. V. S. 
The Missouri State Veterinary Association will hold 
its annual meeting at Mexico, Mo., on August 26. 
