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We will expose in our columns the names of fraudulent 
dealers on receipt of satisfactory evidence. 
All our readers will admit that a doctor who prescribes 
a certain remedy expects that his prescription shall be filled 
accordingly. A druggist has no right whatever to use his 
own judgment in the matter, otherwise he places the repu¬ 
tation of the physician as well as the life of his patient in 
jeopardy. 
Feeling that all doctors, honest druggists, and manufac¬ 
turers of legitimate preparations will be benefited by our 
action in this matter, we solicit their assistance. 
The above notice must be considered as a warning against 
druggists who believe that they are at liberty, to substitute 
drugs. 
Stock Killed by Lightning. —At a meeting of the 
Yorkshire Veterinary Medical Society, England, recently, at 
Leeds, Mr. S. Wharam, Leeds, read a paper on “ The Effect 
of Lightning upon Animals.” He pointed out that electricity 
appeared to act fatally by producing a violent shock to the 
brain and nervous system. Generally there was no sense of 
pain, and the animal fell at once into a state of unconscious¬ 
ness. As to post mortem appearances, he said that the sud¬ 
denness of death was sometimes such that there was nothing 
to indicate the mode of death. But, generally speaking, there 
were external singeing or blackening of hair, and marks of 
contusion and laceration about the spot where the electric 
current had entered or passed out. It was formerly supposed 
that the blood was never coagulated after death by lightning, 
and that the carcass did not become rigid, but these state¬ 
ments were not in accordance with observed facts. Discuss¬ 
ing preventive measures, Mr. Wharam said that in a large 
breeding establishment in Leeds the following system was 
adopted in the park:—Each large tree had a conductor some 
distance above the highest point, and carried into a tank of 
water at the base, the tree being railed round. During the 
twenty-three years that that system was in vogue a large and 
valuable herd was out in the park, and, although in an ex¬ 
posed position, not a single animal was struck by lightning. 
