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try to be honest and are turned down at every corner. It is a 
question of luck, I guess ; but none of us are always right. I 
think if a graduated veterinary surgeon was guilty of such a 
cruel and brutal piece of surgery he would be haled before the 
courts of justice forthwith. We as veterinarians are looking for 
protective laws. I say, enforce the laws we have, and from a 
humanitarian standpoint, stop such brutality in our State. The 
owner of the above-mentioned animals is one of the wealthiest 
and most influential men in Saratoga County. 
THE SCHMIDT TREATMENT FOR MIEK FEVER. 
By Wm. Petrie, V. S., Wheeling, W. Va. 
AT my first opportunity to try it, I was without an instru¬ 
ment to administer the solution. The case was a very bad one 
and there was no hope by any other method ; so, not wishing to 
let it pass, I took a common milk tube and placed it in a new 
“ Omega ” syringe, disinfected the instrument and a quart bot¬ 
tle with boiling water, then placed a glass funnel in the neck of 
the bottle and plugged the neck of the funnel with a pledget of 
absorbent cotton. I then put one dram of carbolic acid and two 
drams of iodide of potash in the funnel and poured in boiling 
water until the bottle was full. After cleansing the udder well 
and cooling the solution to about blood heat, I injected the 
solution into the udder directly from the bottle, about a fourth 
into each quarter. Three injections six hours apart brought 
relief, and complete recovery soon followed. 
A LITTLE EXPERIENCE WITH TANNOPINE. 
By Wm. Petrie, V. S., Wheeling, W. Va. 
At the present time, when so many new medicines are being 
placed on the market, it is impossible to give each a trial. But 
when one does find something that is exceptionally good, it is 
only fair to say so, that others may profit by the experience. 
About a year ago the Fabenfabriken of Elberfeld Co. sent me 
a sample of tannopine and asked me to try it in diseases of 
animals, saying that it was recommended for diarrhoea. I tried 
it in horses, cattle and dogs, with most satisfactory results. In 
catarrhal diarrhoea it seems to be a specific. Two cases in 
horses, four in cattle and two in dogs, that were treated over 
six months ago, were perfectly cured, and others of more recent 
date seem to be all right. The only cases where tannopine 
failed to produce the desired results were found to be of a tuber- 
