A VARIETY OF PRACTICAL CASES. 
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I hope that the International Veterinary Congress of America 
of 1893, following the example of predecessors, will issue a 
forcible and effectual appeal in favor of a system of meat 
inspection of which generalization, obligation and uniformity 
shall be the essential features, to be carried into effect through 
members of the veterinary profession under the prestige and 
sanction of governmental authority and regulation. If our 
colleagues on the other side of the Atlantic will but follow the 
road to success' which has thus been already traced by their 
European brethren, they can hardly fail to obtain the desired 
regulations, greatly to the benefit of the interests of the public 
hygiene, and the more extended utilization of their professional 
influence and qualification. Should they succeed they will have 
worked well, not alone for their own eountry, but in rendering 
the aid of their good example to those who are still clinging to 
prejudices and errors of the old system—which was not a 
spstem, and the old doing—which was not doing, but rather 
the leaving undone that which is so well worth doing in the 
best manner possible. 
A VARIETY OF PRAGTIGAL GASES. 
By J. D. Fair, D.V.S., Berlin, Ohio. 
A Paper read before the Ohio State Veterinary Medical Association, Jan. 10, 1894. 
When our worthy president requested me to prepare a paper 
for our annual meeting I consented to do it without giving it a 
second thought; I soon commenced to think, what will I select 
for my subject: Azoturia ? No. Parturient apoplexy? No. 
Have you anything new ? No. Do you know anything new ? 
No. I finally concluded to write on a subject—or rather report, 
a few cases which came under my observation during the past 
summer, not expecting you to gain any great amount of knowl¬ 
edge from the paper itself, but I merely wish to open the way 
for discussion and reporting of similar cases. 
What are we going to say to an owner and how are we 
going to treat them ? 
