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W. H. HOSKINS. 
ing reasons of the same. That no victims of lysophobia may 
ensue from a perverted nervous system, the result of fright 
or undue anxiety, your services may at times prove the most 
grateful boon to a community when your judgment is sought 
as to the so frequent misjudged mad dog and the well recog¬ 
nized fact of the frequency of newspaper outbreaks of hydro¬ 
phobia and the frightful consequences wrought on already 
overstrained minds from fears entertained as to a simple 
scratch or bite received years before, will make your services 
of the greatest value in tendering a careful opinion so 
thoroughly guarded that all will fear to proclaim the subject, 
and your village or town will fall back into its wonted quiet¬ 
ness, and the infrequency of the disease rabies and its fellow 
hydrophobia soon reach the place it should do in the common 
mind of our people. Remember, here are quite a large num¬ 
ber of well-authenticated cases of lysophobia on record to¬ 
day, and while currently reported as hydrophobia, would 
almost all have yielded to preventive treatment had proper 
measures been resorted to at the time needed. 
The feline existence of diphtheria and possibility of its 
being the origin of it in those of tender years of the human 
family, affords a field of research for all, and the necessity of 
you familiarizing yourselves with its appearance as described 
in the cat, becomes apparent to you at once. In large cities, 
•where these animals come under our care and treatment for 
so many ills, I would advise the most zealous watchfulness on 
the part of the veterinarian that will shed light on this hidden 
question. The most accurate records should be maintained 
and added to the sum of knowledge already obtained that 
must soon answer this problem, and thus afford this means 
of control and immunity to our children from this fatal dis¬ 
ease. 
I can only briefly in this paper refer to your duties in aid¬ 
ing in preserving our nation from the losses entailed through 
the now imported disease of dourine or equine syphilis. The 
determination of what is best to be done with those affected 
members of the bovine species with actinomycosis, the neces¬ 
sity of their early recognition and the education of your client 
