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ment, and in announcing his being obliged to carry out what 
we had on several previous occasions discussed, viz., the desir¬ 
ability of my taking my office to Ottawa, he was most compli¬ 
mentary in his expressions of respect and appreciation of my 
services. He said, in fact, that my services in organizing and 
for twenty-six years conducting a cattle quarantine service by 
which the animal plagues, such as pleuro-pneumonia, foot-and- 
mouth disease, etc., were effectually kept out of Canada, saved 
to Canadian agriculture many millions of dollars, and individ¬ 
ually, I know that he regrets my resignation as much as any 
one. While I have resigned the active administrative duties 
of chief inspector, for the reason that I have had my home in 
Montreal for thirty-six years, my connection with veterinary 
education, and other important business matters requiring me 
to be located here, I would sacrifice too much were I to move 
to Ottawa to give my whole time to departmental work, at a 
salary far below that of a deputy minister. Consequently I 
tendered my resignation as chief inspector, and accepted the 
position of ‘ honorary veterinary adviser,’ in which position I 
trust I may yet be allowed to assist in formulating and seeing 
carried out necessary measures for preventing the introduction of 
those ruinous animal plagues, and proper dealing with diseases 
occurring in animals in the country. I may say that, person¬ 
ally, I am too much interested financially in live stock produc¬ 
tion ever to become a passive spectator of a less vigorous policy 
in dealing with these matters than I have been for twenty-six 
years past.” 
Glycerin Suppositories for Veterinary Use. —The 
veterinary practitioner has often to face certain emergencies, 
when no other laxative is nearly so satisfactory as glycerin, ap¬ 
plied directly to the rectal mucous membranes. Glycerin owes 
its efficacy to an increase of secretion, which it causes from the 
mucous glands, and to the rapid extraction of water from the 
membranes, causing a peristaltic action of the intestines. Gly¬ 
cerin, oil, soap or other enema heretofore used, have always 
been more or less impracticable, and so Messrs. Eimer & Amend, 
the well known veterinary druggists of New York City, have 
prepared a glycerin suppository which will produce a full evac¬ 
uation without pain in from 5 to 15 minutes. A certain irrita¬ 
tion observed by some practitioners which was induced after the 
application of glycerin, is entirely overcome in these suppositor¬ 
ies by employing only the purest glycerin, and combining it 
with an excipient, which render them permanent under ordi- 
