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tained serious injuries to his back, necessitating - a confinement to 
his bed of two weeks. At first the physicians believed he was 
maimed for life, but his robust constitution was a safeguard 
against such a calamity, and we are pleased to announce upon 
authority of a letter from the patient that he is again at his work 
as though nothing had happened. In the crisis of veterinary 
medicine in this country, we cannot afford to lose members of 
the type of Dr. Schwarzkopf, and we, therefore, advise him 
to drive his horse in his excursions about the city. It is less 
dangerous. 
No More Docking in Queen Victoria’s Stabues.—A 
floating paragraph of foreign intelligence announces the impor¬ 
tant fact that Queen Victoria has introduced a reformation of 
the docking practice in her own stables and is employing her 
puissant resources in the effort to induce H. R. H. the Prince of 
Wales to follow her example. The statement has more signifi¬ 
cance than may appear at first blush, for it implies that a blow 
has been struck at the very root of the inhuman practice. 
Once thoroughly discountenanced by the adherents of royalty 
in England it would quickly lose caste among their more or less 
unpatriotic and servile imitators in the United States. By all 
means let us applaud the good sense of Her Most Gracious Maj¬ 
esty .—Trotter and Pacer. 
The New York County Association has. in contempla¬ 
tion the issuance of a veterinary medical register, which is to 
contain a full list of all registered veterinary surgeons in 
Greater New York, together with a great deal of useful informa¬ 
tion for veterinarians in regard to laws, regulations, etc., and a 
certain number of acceptable advertisements, to help defray the 
expenses of the undertaking. The idea is a good one, and the 
book will be of a great deal of service, not only to individual 
veterinarians, but to the profession at large, as the official list 
of registered names will enable members and others to report 
persons practicing without a license with the minimum of 
trouble. Every State association should have a similar list in 
the hands of every registered veterinarian in the State. 
> Veterinarians in Christmas Journals. —The Christmas 
editions of our large agricultural journals are becoming marvels 
of beauty.. The illustrations are of a high artistic order and the 
typographical arrangements really luxurious. There is a tend¬ 
ency to bring on this occasion articles from well-known writers, 
and we note with satisfaction that the veterinary profession 
