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SUNDRIES AND ITEMS. 
I give professional care, board and medicine at the hospital 
for one dollar per day, or twenty-five dollars per month. 
Veterinary dentistry a specialty. 
Services rendered day and nighty Hospital never closed. 
Professional calls made at owner’s stables, anywhere in the 
city, at one dollar per visit. 
Ambulance calls answered night and day. 
Special contracts made with firms to care for stock by .the 
year, with any number of horses. 
Pet dogs cared for and boarded at the hospital. Terms 
moderate. 
Horses boarded winter and summer at my-Farm, 
with professional care and medicine given, at ten dollars per 
month. 
Invalids hauled to steamboats in ambulance free of charge. 
For further information, I would be pleased to have you 
call at the- Hospital, Nos.-Avenue. 
See advertisement in Sunday American. 
Preparing the Antitoxin. —On October 12th, the Pas¬ 
teur Institute possessed for immunizing purposes a stud of twenty 
horses. This stud has now been increased to one hundred and 
thirty-six horses, a total that will probably be ultimately in¬ 
creased to the maximum of 150. Fifteen of these animals are at 
the State Veterinary School of Alfort, where they are kept under 
close observation (with regard to pulse, temperature, etc.), by 
Professor Nocard and his pupils. Forty-two horses are located 
in the old abattoirs of Grenelle placed at M. Roux’s disposal by 
the Municipal Council of Paris. Of these, twenty are kept by 
the municipality at a cost of 20,000 francs ($4,000) a year for 
the benefit of the Paris hospitals and poor. At Villeneuve-l’Et- 
ang—a property ceded by the State to M. Pasteur in 1886_ 
there are seventy-nine horses cared for by a capable veterinary 
surgeon and his staff. While the regulation six litres of blood 
(yielding about half that quantity of serum) are being drawn from . 
the jugular vein, the animal’s attention is easily distracted by a 
