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iinall amount of water. There is generally more or less fever 
cor four or five days; after that time, if the animal is doing well, he 
should be given a little exercise daily, but not until the fever has 
subsided. The average time for recovery is about three weeks. 
Carbolized oil is freely used by some operators on their 
lands, acting as an antiseptic, and also facilitating and rendering 
ess irritating the passage of the hand from the external open- 
ng to the posterior border of Poupart’s ligament into the ab¬ 
dominal cavity. 
Anesthetics are hardly ever used in this country during the 
oerformance of this operation. 
This method of castrating cryptorchid horses has proved very 
successful in this country, when skilfully performed. The few 
deaths that 1 have known have occurred from peritonitis, supposed 
to have been caused through carelessness of the operator in not ob¬ 
serving proper antiseptic precautions. 
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VETERINARY LEGISLATION. 
CHAPTER 587. 
AN ACT IN REGARD TO THE AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE, 
passed June 5th, 1886; three-fifths being present. 
The people of the State of New York, represented in Senate and 
Assembly, do enact as follows : 
Section 1. The American Veterinary College, organized un¬ 
der the provisions of chapter three hundred and nineteen of the 
laws of eighteen hundred and forty-eight, entitled “An Act for the 
incorporation of benevolent, charitable, scientific and missionary 
societies,” and the acts amendatory thereof, by certificate dated 
April twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and 
approved by one of the justices of the Supreme Court, and filed 
in the office of the clerk of the county of New York, the twenty- 
ninth day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, is hereby 
declared to be legally incorporated for the purposes of maintaining 
and conducting a veterinary medical college and a hospital devoted 
to the education of men in the several departments of the medical 
sciences necessary to qualify them for the practice of veterinary 
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