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PIERRE A FISH. 
preparations, in general practice and hypodermically, as many 
of the alkaloids as was practicable, I took very kindly to the 
alkaloidal preparations so conveniently prepared for internal 
administration, introduced to the veterinary profession a year 
ago by the Abbott Alkaloidal Co., of Chicago, through the me¬ 
dia of this journal, and rejoice at the realization that we are 
able to procure the active principles of the drugs we desire to 
employ separated from the grosser materials, accurately 
weighed and put up in convenient form for administering inter¬ 
nally, with no greater exertion necessary upon our part than 
paying for them. This is a condition of affairs we feel that 
merits a vote of thanks from the veterinary profession to the 
makers of these alkaloids, and to the thousands of their support¬ 
ers in the medical profession that have made it possible, through 
their support, for these people to place them at our doors, and 
congratulations to the veterinary profession that they have been 
so placed within the reach of all. At some future time I shall 
report some experiences with the alkaloids in equine patients 
similarly administered. 
THE PRESENCE OF PHOSPHATES IN THE URINE OF 
THE HORSE. 
By Pierre A. Fish, D. Sc., D. V. M., N. Y. State Veterinary 
College, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Read at the meeting of the N. Y. State Veterinary Medical Society, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Sept. 13, 1900. 
The presence of phosphates in herbiverous urine has been 
a mooted question until a comparatively recent period. Even 
at the present time there are some who deny such existence. 
Phosphates are abundant in the urine of omnivora and car¬ 
nivora, but present only to a slight extent in that of herbivora. 
The first and most natural explanation for this state of affairs 
would seemingly point to the difference in the diet of these 
three great groups of animals. 
That this is not entirely the true explanation is readily un- 
