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QUITTOR. 
with pay of from $1,324 to $2,200 a year; veterinary surgeons, 
with rank of lieutenant, with pay of $1,000 a year. 
A candidate for the veterinary department of the army 
must hold the diploma of the Royal College of Veterinary Sur¬ 
geons, and is required to pass an examination before a board 
of military veterinary surgeons. Ability and merit are the 
requisites for promotion. 
An officer of the veterinary department placed on half pay 
by reduction of establishment, or on account of physical in¬ 
ability caused in and by the discharge of his duty, or having 
reached the age of fifty-five shall be entitled to half pay or re¬ 
tired pay at the following rates: 
Principal veterinary surgeon, $2,420; inspecting veteri¬ 
nary surgeon, $1,557 to $ 1 ,854; veterinary surgeon, first-class, 
$883 to $1,412 ; veterinary surgeon, $360 to $839. 
The law provides for voluntary retirement after twenty 
years service with half pay, and after twenty-five years 7-ioths 
P ay * 
The law provides for the promotion of veterinary surgeons 
for distinguished service. 
The rate of pay for veterinary surgeons in India is from 
432 to 1,183 Rs. 
QUITTOR. 
By Williamson Bkyden, V.S. 
The Veterinary Journal for September, 1894, contains the 
last of Prof. MacQueen’s article on “Quittor,” read by him 
before the Midland Counties Veterinary Medical Associa¬ 
tion, England. Its completion in the Journal was awaited 
with the interest and expectation one waits for what a popu¬ 
lar teacher has to say when the subject reviewed is illy under¬ 
stood by the profession, and often difficult to treat satisfacto¬ 
rily in practice. 
From ten to twelve years ago, I engaged in a controversy 
with members of the teaching and hospital staff of the Amer¬ 
ican Veterinary College, New York, on the subject of quittor, 
