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A Good Appointment. —Dr. N. P. Hinkley, of Buffalo, 
has been appointed by the Department of Agriculture to the 
position of United States Veterinary Inspector at the ports of 
Buffalo and Niagara Falls. He succeeds Dr. John T. Claris, 
who was appointed during the Harrison administration. Dr. 
Hinkle)^ received his commission recently, and since then 
has filed his oath of office in Washington. He is a well-known 
veterinary surgeon, and is a native of Erie County, born in 
Lancaster in 1855. He went to Buffalo in 1870. Ten years 
later he was graduated from McGill University, Montreal, 
with the degree of V.S., and from the same institution, in 
1890, he took the degree oLD.V.S. 
Our Animal Friends —a monthly issued bythex 4 meri- 
can Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, con¬ 
tains lots of material interesting to veterinarians, if not direct¬ 
ly as professional men, at least indirectly as protectors of ani¬ 
mals, as their duties call them to be. Members of such societies 
and veterinarians are bound to work hand in hand to protect 
and relieve our domestic animals from quackery and its bar¬ 
barous cruelties. 
A New Treatment for Glanders. —Claudius Nourry 
and C. Michel have held before the Academie des Sciences 
{La Medecine Moderne, September 1, 1892) that there is a great 
similarity between glanders and tuberculosis, a similarity that 
has led them to employ in the first disease the methods of 
treatment most recently recommended for the latter affection. 
The authors have tried the following in two cases occurring 
in the horse : 1, hypodermic injections of creosotated oil to 
enhance the reabsorption of pulmonary tubercles and granu¬ 
lar adenitis ; 2, chloride of zinc, in washing out the nasal cav¬ 
ities, to combat the ulcerative destruction of the pituitary 
membrane. This treatment of glanders is based upon the 
two methods recommended in the treatment of tuberculosis; 
the first proposed by Bouchard and followed by Burlureaux, 
