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New Graduates from the Veterinary Department 
OF Harvard University. —At the recommencement exercises 
of this school, which took place on June 30th, in conjunction 
with the other departments of the University, twenty gentlemen 
received the degree of M.D.V., on the recommendation of the 
Dean, Prof. Charles P. Uyman: Frank Jerome Babbitt, Klmer 
Warren Babson, Clarence Edward Biirchstead, Howard Mont¬ 
gomery Burgers, Cornelius Cronon, Frederick Thomas Dolan, 
Clement Arthur Hamblet, Edward Ambrose Madden, Arthur 
Winthrop May, William Augustine Nannery, Ellis Peterson, Jr., 
Charles Herbert Perry, Thomas Joseph Shenkwin, Frank Benja¬ 
min Stratton, Berton Amasa Thissell, Pell Fletcher Wallingford, 
Lewis Cummings Weeks, Daniel George White, William Tis¬ 
dale White, and Alexander Fames Wight. 
Tetanus Antitoxin. —At a meeting of the French Acad¬ 
emy of Medicine, held in Paris, on the 27th of July last. Dr. 
Nocard stated that the Pasteur laboratories in Paris had dis¬ 
pensed 7000 doses of ten c.c. each of tetanus antitoxin, which 
had been used for the preventive treatment of 3100 animals 
located in districts where tetanus was endemic. Not a single 
death from tetanus occurred. One horse alone, treated five 
days after the infection of the wound, had tetanus, but the 
disease was mild. During the same time the same veterinarians 
had observed 259 cases of tetanus in animals that had not been 
treated preventively with the antitoxin. Dr. Nocard states that 
there is no doubt of the utility of preventive injections of tetanus 
antitoxin in veterinary practice. The treatment of tetanus, when 
once thoroughly declared, is difficult and uncertain. Its preven¬ 
tion, therefore, is of prime importance. 
Cystic Caecuei in a Bitch. —In the Joiir^tal of Compara¬ 
tive Pathology and Therapeutics Mr. H. Gray, M.R.C.V.S., sug¬ 
gests that cystic calculi may be more rare in bitches than in 
dogs, or, at least, he says that such has been his experience. 
Such may be the case, but there are no doubt many veterina¬ 
rians who have seen cystic calculi quite often in the bitch and 
probably of many that, like the present case, had a fatal ending. 
This fox terrier, aged about ten years, had had great difficulty 
and pain in making water. For two days her condition was a 
great deal worse, she had passed a little bloody urine, had occa¬ 
sional vomiting and was very drowsy. On examination at about 
one and a half inches from the vulva, a calculus as big as a large 
marble, was detected in the urethra. By careful manipulation 
