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old and feeble. For these animals a charge will be made.’ 55 
—National Live Stock Journal. 
Diseases in Montana. —According to one of our exchanges, 
regarding the prevalence of disease among horses, the territo¬ 
rial veterinarian, Dr. Holloway, says: “ During the past few 
months I have examined cases of 4 unknown ’ horse diseases in 
the Gallatin valley, and found severe cases of influenza with 
more or less of its many forms and complications. On Mizpah 
Creek, Custer County, I found that form of influenza known 
as epizootic pleuritis. In another part of the territory I found the 
4 unknown ’ to be a hoof disease, ‘furuncle,’ and in another place 
it turned out to be a bad outbreak of glanders, and so I could go 
on and state where I had found cases of paralysis, pyogenic fever, 
azoturia, c loco ’ poisoning (‘ loco ’ can hardly be termed pois¬ 
onous ; it affects animals in much the same way that the opium 
habit affects people), scarlet fever, ergotism, etc., but I think this 
will be sufficient to convey my meaning. Taking into considera¬ 
tion the number of horses in Montana, the exposures to which 
they are subjected, and the little care they receive, I consider 
them as healthy as any in the Union, and I unhesitatingly state 
that we have no worse diseases among our horses to-day than can 
be found in almost every State and Territory from Maine to Cali¬ 
fornia. 
Diseases of Children. —Messrs. J. B. Lippincott Company 
announce to the profession the publication of a “Cyclopedia of 
the Diseases of Children,” medical and surgical, by American, 
British, and Canadian authors, edited by J. M. Keating, M. D., 
in four imperial octavo volumes; to be sold by subscription 
only. The first volume will be issued early in April, and the 
subsequent volumes at short intervals. 
A thorough knowledge of the diseases of children is a mat¬ 
ter of greatest importance to most physicians, and as this is the 
only work of the kind that has been published in English, it will 
be invaluable as a text-book and work of reference for the busy 
practitioner. 
