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member of the Chicago Veterinary Association, and left the city 
with the best wishes of every veterinarian who knew him. 
A New Canine Tablet.— At the suggestion of Dr. Robert 
W. Ellis, of New York City, the Abbott Alkaloidal Company 
have placed on their list a one-grain aloin tablet. The doctor, 
who has made a study of alkaloinetry in canine practice, says 
that the dose to produce catharsis is from one to two grains, and 
that the a and T V grain tablets require too much administration. 
New York City Veterinarians were never so busy as 
during the summer of 1901. After the influenza and heat pros¬ 
trations, purpura hsemorrhagica was very prevalent. It was 
the experience of many in this latter disease that a lung full of 
pure air was better than a stomach full of medicine. Removal 
from unsanitary stables to the air and grass of the field will save 
these patients in the great majority of cases. 
Dr. Frank H. Miller, of New York, removed two tumors 
from the fore feet of the large alligator u Big Mose,” Aug. 9, at 
the Zoological Garden, after a struggle in which it required eight 
men and many yards of strong rope to confine him. Even 
bound securely thus the patient would jerk his legs away as the 
operator would attempt to inject cocaine, so that it was found 
necessary to place him under chloroform anaesthesia, it requir¬ 
ing three ounces to accomplish this. 
A Physician Nominated for Mayor. —Dr. Edward F. 
Brush has been nominated for mayor of Mt. Vernon by the 
Republican City Convention. Dr., Brush was the first mayor 
the city ever had. He was elected in 1892, and made an ex¬ 
cellent official. There was a general demand for his renonnn- 
ation ever since, but he has always declined. Dr. Brush was 
for several years professor of cattle pathology at the American 
Veterinary College. 
Dr. D. E. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau of Animal Indus¬ 
try, in an interview in the New York Herald , is sure Prof. 
Koch is wrong in his conclusions before the London Tubercu¬ 
losis Congress. Prof. James Law, director of the New York 
State Veterinary College, is of the same opinion. The venera¬ 
ble scientist, Prof. Virchow, takes decided issue with Koch It 
may be stated that medical Germany and England are solidly 
against the Koch theory. 
During the Recent Hot Spell, “ Zenoleum,” that most 
excellent antiseptic, prepared by the Zenner Disinfectant Co., 
Detroit, has proved a balm to the bruised and abraded surfaces 
inflicted upon animals that have suffered from heat prostration, 
