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knew of some glanders and had experimented a little with tu¬ 
berculin. Ohio has practically no law in reference to tuberculosis. 
The Committee on Veterinary Progress had prepared no re¬ 
port. 
Dr. Shepard now introdiiced J. P. Adams, of Cleveland, Pres¬ 
ident of the Master Horse-shoers Association, who read an ex¬ 
ceedingly interesting paper on the relation of the horse-shoer to 
the veterinarian from a horse-shoer’s standpoint.* The essay 
was followed by remarks on the same subject by Pat. Kearns, 
President of the Horse-shoers Association of Springfield. In the 
course of his remarks he said that in Springfield they had veter¬ 
inary surgeons who demanded of the horse-shoers the shoeing 
of their horses for nothing, or else they worked against them. 
W. M. Brown, of Columbus, also spoke a few minutes. Discus¬ 
sion on the subject was -opened by Dr. Howe. He wished horse- 
shoers and veterinarians did work a little more harmoniously; 
he had adopted the plan of always asking the owner of a lame 
horse who his blacksmith was, as that he considered was the 
owner’s business, no matter what his personal opinion of the 
smith might be. Dr. Hillock thought Dr. Howe had covered 
the ground for him, but he must say he found smiths dabbling 
in veterinary medicine, floating teeth, etc., and it was this fact 
that greatly assisted in establishing bad feeling between smiths 
and veterinarians, but he thought that more harmony existed 
in Columbus than there used to be. Dr. Carl knew a smith 
who bragged largely about his owm ability as a veterinary sur¬ 
geon, and he had sent a horse to him to have bar-shoes put on, 
and this smith had refused to put them on. This same smith 
put a spring in the foot to cure a lame horse, when the real 
cause of trouble was a nail prick. Would be glad to see more 
harmony. Dr. Shaw was glad to see the course being taken by 
the horse-shoers ; it should have been done long ago ; he thought 
the better educated the smiths the more harmony. He em¬ 
ployed a certain smith in Dayton to do his personal work ; one 
day he sent a patron’s horse to him to be shod. This horse had 
a quarter-crack clamped together, which the doctor was treat¬ 
ing ; the smith sold the owner a box of ointment that would 
grow the crack together, and the doctor lost a patient and the 
’ smith the doctor’s work. Prof. White said he was glad to see 
that horse-shoers are waking up ; he had attended a six months’ 
course at the Royal Smithy at Dresden, and had imported about 
forty different shaped horse-shoes for use in different pathologi- 
* Will be printed in an early issue of the Review. 
