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CORRESPONDENCE. 
fessorship of pathology, internal clinic and pathological anat¬ 
omy, the duties of which posts he continued to fulfil until 
1885, when, relinquishing his labors on account of failing 
health, he received from the Secretary of Agriculture his title 
of “ honorary ” professor. 
Professor Saint-Cyr has written much during his profes¬ 
sional career, and the Journal of Medecine Veterinaire , pub¬ 
lished at Lyons, contains numerous articles of interest from 
his pen. Two of his most important works, viz., his “ Treatise 
on Veterinary Obstetrics ” and a “ Manual of Exploration of the 
Chest of Domestic Animals f have been adopted among the clas¬ 
sics in veterinary literature. 
We regret to announce the death of Dr. Emilio Charum, 
which took place on July 4th. Dr. Charum graduated at the 
Columbia Veterinary College in 1883. 
CORRESPONDENCE, 
AN INQUIRY. 
Hillsboro, Ohio, July, 1892 . 
Dear Sir .—I have read somewhere, I think outside of our 
journals, that electricity has been lecently applied to diagnose I 
the state of a horse’s foot when prick has been suspected. 
Usage is to put one pole of a battery in contact immediately 
above the hoof, the other pole in contact with the shoe. If j 
the hoof has been pierced to the sensitive part, the horse will 
feel the electric current and become irritated ; in the other 
case, the current cannot pass through the foot. 
This may be an old idea to many, but it is something new 
to me. Yours very respectfully, S. R. Howard, V.S. 
[Some of our readers may give Dr. Howard information. 
It seems to us that the subject was presented in the Chicago 
Medical Nezvs. —Ed.] 
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