OBITUARY. — SUNDRIES. 
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uates. The main reasons for the change are that M.D.C.is 
more appropriate, comprehensive, elevating and less liable to 
be assumed by empirical practitioners than V.S., or any other 
combination of initials relating to the title. 
Former graduates can avail themselves of the change by 
returning to the Secretary their old diplomas accompanied 
by five dollars, the cost of the new ones. 
Excepting the change in degree the new diplomas will be 
as far as practicable fac similes of the old. 
JOS. Hughes, Secretary. 
OBITUARY, 
Dr. J. F. Boothby, graduate of the Ontario Veterinary 
College, died on the 20th of March, of intestinal disease, at 
Ironwood, Michigan, where he had succeeded in establishing 
a good and lucrative practice. 
SUNDRIES. 
Information Regarding Glycozone Answer to one 
of our Readers. —Glycozone is a staple compound from 
the chemical reaction which takes place when C. P. glycerine 
is submitted, under special conditions, to the action of fifteen 
times its own volume of ozone, under normal atmospheric 
pressure at a temperature of 0 ° C. 
The presence of water and other foreign substances in 
the glycerine changes the nature of this reaction, so that 
instead of producing glycozone, we obtain formic acid, 
glyceric acid, and other secondary products having deleteri¬ 
ous effects upon the animal cells. 
Glycozone being hydroscopic must be tightly^ corked, so 
as to avoid being deteriorated by the moisture contained in 
the atmosphere. 
Although glycozone absorbs water readily, it does not 
deteriorate when kept at a temperature of no degrees F. as 
long as it retains its proper anhydrous condition. 
