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OLAF SCHWARTZKOPFF. 
Finally, if we would see our profession in its true position, we 
should not forget ourselves. Considered as a whole, and giving 
due weight to our educational advantages and to the state of 
public sentiment at the time of our graduation, we have done 
nobly, but we need to do far better, we need to advance and get 
fully abreast with the times. The school of every day experience 
offers rich opportunities for study and observation, both upon the 
living and dead animal. We should train ourselves to be close 
observers of the course and symptoms of the various cases coming 
under our observation, to better insure a safe diagnosis, treat¬ 
ment or prognosis in the future. 
The post-mortem study of disease is far more available to us 
than to the medical practitioner, there being no adverse sentiment 
in our way ; so that we should make a careful post-mortem study 
of most of our fatal cases, and should allow nothing but the most 
urgent duties to interfere with our plans. 
Veterinary journals we should not only read regularly and 
carefully, but each of us should try to assist in making them in¬ 
structive by offering what we can for publication, which is likely 
to prove of interest to our fellow practitioners, and such cases of 
interest do occur in the practice of every veterinarian. By pub¬ 
lishing such cases, we would not only confer a favor upon the 
profession but would benefit ourselves as well by being compelled 
to classify and arrange our thoughts, perhaps search for new 
thoughts, and thereby impress the thoughts of the hour indelibly 
upon our minds. 
Let us then lay aside jealousies and animosities, if they exist, 
between the graduates of the different colleges, and work earn¬ 
estly and fraternally for the advancement of our profession and 
ourselves. 
THE EFFECTS OF “LOCO-WEED.” 
By Olaf Schwartzkopff, Y.M.D., U. S. Army. 
In the issue of the American Veterinary Review of March 
I notice an article by L. E. Sayre, Ph.G., upon the so-called 
“ loco-weed,” as it affects animals. Having had experience with 
the matter, 1 think it a debt to our science to give the results 
