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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
vestment to keep a small stock of veterinary medicines on 
hand, to be used in cases of emergency. Eimer & Amend, 205 
to 211 Third Ave., corner Eighteenth Street, make a specialty 
of supplying such medicines, and have just issued a special list 
of veterinary medicines and sundries, which they consider the 
most complete list of its kind ever published. The drugs and 
pharmaceutical preparations sold by them are of the best and 
purest that can possibly be obtained ; the fluid extracts, tinct¬ 
ures, ointments, etc., are manufactured by them in their labora¬ 
tory on the premises. Special attention is given to the recipes 
of veterinary surgeons in their prescription department. Eimer 
& Amend will mail on application one of their veterinary lists 
on mentioning this paper. 
A Befitting Tribute.— At the April meeting of the Vet¬ 
erinary Medical Association of New York County, W. Herbert 
Lowe, D. V. S., of Paterson, N. J., was unanimously elected an 
honorary member of that association. This was a very appro¬ 
priate honor to a very deserving recipient. It has always ap¬ 
peared to us as just and proper that men of the type of Dr. Eowe 
should be appreciated and encouraged during their period of 
active life, thus stimulating them to continued efforts, not wait¬ 
ing to bestow the high words of praise in the obituary notice 
nor incorporated in the resolutions to be spread upon the minutes 
“ and a copy sent to the sorrowing family of our deceased 
brother.” Dr. Lowe is the type of the modern veterinarian—of 
those who are adding to the material upbuilding of our profes¬ 
sion—enthusiastic, earnest, intelligent, dignified, and up-to-date, 
and the more we have of this kind the better it will be for us all. 
It was a nice tribute which the society paid to the doctor, and 
we extend our compliments to both. 
The Thermo-Cautery. —Among inventions bearing upon 
therapeutics and surgery none has achieved more widespread 
renown than the thermo-cautery, especially so among veterinari¬ 
ans, and true it is that no up-to-date veterinarian can do with¬ 
out an apparatus for this purpose. It was about 1891 that the 
patent for the original thermo-cautery expired, leaving it to the 
wide world to improve upon its original form. Messrs. John 
Reynders & Co., of 303 Fourth Avenue, New York, have been 
untiring in their efforts to realize a contrivance as free from ob¬ 
jections as possible, and, after having had two or three types of 
cautery, now seem to have settled upon a model of final and ex¬ 
traordinary merit, which within the last year they have been 
