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medicine given, administer the following daily to each animal 
under treatment: Common salt, 4 ounces; nit. potash, half 
ounce: bi-carb. soda, 1 ounce; syrup, 1 pint; water, 1 quart; 
mix well, and drench. Three days will be quite sufficient to 
keep up this treatment. At all times during treatment allow 
free access to be had by the sick stock to water. Injections 
are often used with good effect, as follows: Warm water, 4 
quarts; 1 ounce soap (dissolved), 1 ounce pure glycerine; mix 
well, and give by syringe per rectum. Give sloppy food after¬ 
wards for some days, such as bran mash, boiled carrots or 
cabbage, etc. 
If the case does not yield to this course of treatment, there 
is evidently such a degree of impaction that no medicine you 
can administer will have any effect. Then the only chance 
left is to cut into the stomach through the abdominal wall and 
to remove the contents by hand. This, of course, can be done, 
with any prospect of success, only by a skillful veterinary 
surgeon. 
In cases where distention of the stomach by gas is present, 
the use of the trocar and canula will soon afford relief. Pre¬ 
vention should be the watchword of the stockowner, and if 
rationally pursued he will have little need to trouble much 
about the use of medicine or surgery for the disease under 
discussion. 
THE VETERINARIAN AS A SANITARIAN, 
By I. Newton Krowl, D.Y.S. 
It seems to me that the object of all branches of prophy¬ 
lactic treatment is unquestionably the grandest, the noblest 
and by far the most satisfactory aim of the medical scientist; 
the prevention of disease is one of the great absorbing prob¬ 
lems of the present age; and the truth of the old but fre¬ 
quently quoted adage “ an ounce of prevention is better than 
a pound of cure,” is certainly becoming more and more forci¬ 
bly demonstrated as the years of advancing civilization and 
luxury roll by. Crowded cities and other great centers of 
population, associated with the demands of a public almost 
beside itself, “ intoxicated, as it were,” with the ever increas- 
