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the work of the future veterinarian, and he will gain his snceess 
in life, both soeial and finaneial, not so inneh upon his ability 
as a skillful surgeon, or by his suecess in treating eolic, fistnlons 
withers or spavin, biit upon his scientific knowledge and attain¬ 
ments. 
Onr fault has been that we have paid too much attention to 
the practical side of every-day practice, and often at the expense 
of the theoretical and experimental. We have judged other 
practitioners and been judged ourselves upon onr money-getting 
powers, the ability to convert onr professional skill into dollars 
and cents, and have sometimes been so awed by the end that we 
have not been particular about the means. 
The bicycle and horseless vehicle mark the beginning of a 
new era for the veterinarian. From this time onward the 
marketable commodity will not be what we can do, but what 
we know. 
REPORTS OF CASES. 
THE VAGARIES OF INFLUENZA IN GREEN HORSES. 
By Francis Aeele, Jr., Quincy, Mass. 
I have usually, when I had a disease of the respiratory tract, 
'and temperature above 105°, in a green horse, prognosed to my¬ 
self influenza coming on. I will not say diagnosed, for it is too 
early to make a diagnosis. Fast year I had a case where the 
temperature was 107° •^or three days, when the temperature 
steadily declined. There appeared typhoid complications, to be 
sure, but I hardly hesitated at the outset from the temperature 
alone to diagnose influenza. The horse has been at work a year 
now. No abscess came and no characteristics of strangles ap¬ 
peared. 
This winter I had a horse just from the cars, with a tempera¬ 
ture of 108°. To be certain I took it several times.' His appe¬ 
tite was gone, respiration difficult, snuffling and showing con¬ 
siderable pneumonic trouble. For two weeks the temperature 
was very variable. After about four days I had it down to 103°. 
Next day it was io6f, yet the horse appeared better. The fever 
was intermittent ; one day up, next day down ; never failing in 
this respect. The whole right ramus of the inferior maxilla be- 
