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A. C. HASSLOCH. 
when we get back you will pronounce a benediction on the trip 
and say that you have been out with the handsomest “ charger 
on the stretch.” (Lau£'hter.) 
And the members of the press are here—the faithful chroni¬ 
clers and motive power of all associations, and with whom I have 
a contract to write all my speeches—will faithfully chronicle all 
that is done and said in my absence, and I will be sure to keep 
up with the procession. May Heaven bless you, newspaper 
boys. They have condoned my faults, and magnified my virtues 
to such an extent, that while my dear sweet wife don’t regard 
me as a Solomon, she thinks I am no sardine, by a large majority. 
(Lmighter.) 
We have the lights from the great universities among us to¬ 
day, whose permeating beams will brighten our way through 
the midnight of gloom and doubt. Guided by our past experi¬ 
ences and aided by such lights as these, how can we fail to suc¬ 
ceed in relieving the pain which exists in the forest of the 
lumbar region of the noble horse. {Applause.') 
ON THE USE OF BARIUM CHLORIDE. 
By a. C. Hassloch, V. S., New York City. 
Since Prof. Dieckerhoff, in 1895, recommended the use of 
barium chloride in the treatment of colic, its value as a thera¬ 
peutical agent has been discussed pro and con by veterinarians 
all over the civilized world. While from many came adverse 
reports following its use, a few others lauded the new remedy to 
the skies. Having carefully followed all of Prof. D.’s reports, 
I determined to institute a thorough investigation of the phys¬ 
iological action of the new agent, and after the use of barium 
chloride in upwards of 200 cases of colic, have arrived at the 
following conclusions, viz.: That barium chloride is one of the 
most valuable remedial agents yet given to the veterinarian, to 
promptly produce a most vigorous and energetic intestinal peris¬ 
talsis, so necessary to-the relief from colic in our equine patients ; 
that it in no way produces any unpleasant or disastrous after- 
