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JOHN R. HART. 
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reputation and a full confidence of our clients. They should be 
instructed in all matters pertaining to the stable, as I do not 
think there is one in our profession who is guilty of congratu¬ 
lating himself when called to attend an animal on the street suf¬ 
fering with azoturia. I have charge of a few large stables and 
cases of azoturia in them are rare. The animals are given fre¬ 
quently in their feed Glauber’s salt, with a light diet twice 
weekly. All these animals are in good condition. I think 
Glauber’s salt will prevent effete matter from collecting in the 
blood. 
I think if some of our colleges would take an animal or two 
and allow them to stand for one or two weeks, as may be re¬ 
quired, and feed to them the full complement of food at each 
meal ; then weigh the excretion, test the urine at intervals, then 
change the food as circumstances may require to find out what 
composition in food that is retained brings on this poisonous 
condition, compare the income with the outgo, the ingesta with 
the excreta, they would learn not only what part of the ingesta 
is retained in the body but would detect substances in the ex¬ 
creta not present in the food, and would learn all the changes 
which the body undergoes under the influence of the food. 
It is possible, and would it not be wise to first discover what 
the muscles have lost of their nutritive elements, then increase 
this loss to the muscles by treatment identical with what is lost 
to give them tone. 
At our next annual meeting, if not prevented by some un¬ 
foreseen cause, I will endeavor to give a detailed account of the 
conditions of organs, and what is found, as well as the con¬ 
ditions of the blood and what is found, with such assistance as 
may be rendered by the Division of Bacteriology. 
Veterinary Statistics of the Engeish Army. —During 
the years 1895-1896 there were in the army 15,290 troop horses 
and 147 mules. The number of sick ones has been 7795, that 
of the dead 2.22 per cent, of the whole number. 5367 animals were 
treated for surgical diseases, 208 were sick with respiratory trou¬ 
bles, 258 had distemper. Not one case of glanders. 
