A VETERINARY POTPOURRI. 
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when Mrs. H. directed my attention to the mare’s right nostril, 
out of which the distal end of the tube was slowly emerging. 
Almost the entire tube must have been coiled up in the pharynx. 
The tube was easily recovered with no hemmorrhage, and then 
properly passed. 
Many veterinarians, as we all know, have quite fanciful signs 
and cards, but here is a card to which I can attest: 
RISSIE BOOZEVELDT, 
The Boss Horse Doctor. 
Keeper of a Jersey Bull. 
Hay for Sale. Also Sweet Cider. 
And Rissie is no bad kind of a fellow, but he will doctor 
horses. Means well. Rissie no doubt could have broken into 
some veterinary college ages and .ages ago when all that was 
then called for was a primitive knowledge of the three R’s. 
Ah me! it’s so different now. There can be no healing for 
such as Rissie. The veterinary profession now requires a liberal 
education and much mental, as well as manual labor. 
Therefore, it is a profession, pure and simple—a real pro¬ 
fession, and not, as some consider it, a mere money making 
device. 
In conclusion, I wish to say this little paper is addressed 
more to the younger members of our profession, who should 
never lose faith in the great usefulness of the art, or ever think 
for an instant that their veterinary education is complete, 
“ For never yet hath one attained 
To such perfection, but that time and place, 
And use have brought addition to his knowledge; 
Or made correction, or admonished him 
That he was ignorant of much which he 
Had thought he knew, or led him to reject 
What he had once esteemed of highest price.” 
The Wisconsin State Veterinary Society will meet at Water- 
town in August. 
