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tion, affected animals should be isolated without loss of time, as 
also should their halters, grooming utensils, etc. The re¬ 
mainder of the horses should be scrubbed with water in which 
about eight ounces of bicarbonate of soda to the ordinary United 
States stable pail of water has been dissolved, and with the free 
use of soap. The picket line and posts near which the sick 
animals had been should also be scrubbed with the same solu¬ 
tion. This has generally prevented the further spread of the 
disease. No doubt there are a great many more efficient anti¬ 
septics which might be used with advantage, but the veterina¬ 
rian in the United States army is laboring under the great dis¬ 
advantage of having at his command only a few drugs which 
have been considered obsolete by practising veterinarians for 
many years. It is to be regretted that there has not been an in¬ 
telligent issue of drugs to the different organizations which are 
serving in the Philippines, so far away from any place where 
the veterinarian could obtain necessary articles from some store. 
In the whole list of drugs that are allowed the different troops 
in the army there is not one that is an absolute necessity or one 
that would be of any decided advantage in case of a serious 
outbreak of contagious disease. There is no doubt but what 
those lists were made out at a time when there was little or no 
sickness amongst troop horses, and for the benefit of that class 
of persons that delighted to empty all kinds of nasty messes of 
bulky medicines down a suffering creature’s throat, said medi¬ 
cines to cause as much pain by burning, scalding, choking, etc., 
as possible, and not intended in any way to alleviate the suffer¬ 
ings of the helpless dumb brute. 
There are 20 students in the freshmen class at the New 
York-American Veterinary College this session, making an en¬ 
tire class of 50. ' 
The department of “ Reports of Cases ” is always one of the 
most valuable in a medical journal. It has been especially so 
in the Review recently—this month is a good example of what 
it should always be. Every subscriber is cordially invited to 
use it as freely as he may wish in ‘‘ building up the solid edifice 
of pathological science.” 
