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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Professor Koch’s cure for rinderpest is regarded with the 
gravest misgivings in official circles. The cattle treated strictly 
according to Dr. Koch’s method are dying in hundreds.— {Veteri¬ 
nary Joiirnali) 
Have You Sent the subject of your paper to be read at 
Nashville to Secretary Stewart? Those entrusted with the de-. 
tails of the arrangements need every assistance in order to have 
things run smoothly. 
Maeuein in Great Britain. —The Midland Counties Vet¬ 
erinary Medical Association and the West of Scotland Veteri¬ 
nary Association endorse mallein as an extremely sure test of 
the existence or non-existence of glanders. 
The Kentucky Kegislature has passed a bill which pro¬ 
vides for the killing of all horses that may be affected with 
glanders and a recompense of $50 per head to the owners of all 
animals so destroyed. 
Returning Prosperity, scarcity of good horses, on account 
of the diminished amount of breeding during the past few years, 
and the spending of the bicycle craze (among those who can 
afford to keep horses) are making the equine more valuable. 
The more valuable he becomes the better veteriuary patient he 
will be. 
A Veterinary Microscopist. —At the exhibition of the 
New York Microscopical Society, held on April 13, Herbert 
Neher, D. V. S., of this city, presented a section of the dog’s 
longue, also a section of the human lung, injected, showing the 
blood vessels around the air cells. His work was much admired, 
the latter specimen being considered especially fine. 
Likes the Review. —A subscriber in Columbia, Pa., 
writes under date of April 24: “ Enclosed please find postal 
order for three dollars, for my subscription to the Review from 
April, 1897, to April, 1898. Q)uld not get along without the 
Review ; have very often found one article in a number that 
was worth more than a year’s subscription.” 
In Deep Water. —Those who think that the veterinarian’s 
abilities cease with his dexterity in treating colics or diagnosing 
lameness will hesitate to further malign us when they read the 
following note from an M. D. to a well-known New Jersey 
veterinarian : “ May 22, 1897.—My dear Doctor : Kept my eye 
open for a glimpse of you Thursday, but of no use. I was anx- 
