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tunity to try the new instrument, but from what we have heard 
of it, it seems to answer all the purposes and gives all that its 
inventor promised, viz., “that it is the best on the market at 
present.” Test it, that is the best proof of the value of the 
claims. 
CORRECTION— Surgical Treatment of the Diseases of the 
Hock Joint .—Prof. Zuill sends us a correction for an omission 
made in the composing room in the above named article. The 
article was published in the July issue, and at the bottom of 
page 250 the following ought to be inserted between the last 
two words “hock lame” and the first “ness” of page 251., 
ness, it remains for us to examine the chronic form of the disease. 
Chronic Hock Lameness .—111 this form of the disease there are two conditions, 
which may produce lameness, and when we have an old spavin without this manifes¬ 
tation we may be sure that neither exists. The first and by far the most frequent 
causes of chronic hock lame. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE OPENING OF THE M C KILLIP 
VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
By Olof Schwarzkopf. 
Mr. President , Ladies and Gentlemen. —Whenever a new insti¬ 
tution of learning opens its doors to the great public there ought to 
be rejoicing. The diffusion of useful knowledge of'whatever kind 
and in whatever direction adds so much to the enlightenment of 
the people and is always welcome. Many are the Universities, 
Colleges, and schools which are spread all over this great and 
growing country. Sciences and arts are taught liberally every¬ 
where, and their disciples abound in numbers from one end of 
the country to the other. 
But there is one science which, from reasons rather difficult 
to explain, has been sadly neglected in our country; this is the 
science of veterinary medicine and surgery. Not further back 
