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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Dr. John R. Mohler, inspector in the Bureau of Animal 
Industry, recently transferred from Southern California to 
Kansas City, has been placed in charge of the government 
microscopic inspection of pork at Milwaukee. 
An Antiseptic Powder eor Suppurating Wounds.— 
The Quebec Revite Medicate for September 8th gives this for¬ 
mula as Schwartz’s: Iodoform, salol, bismuth subnitrate, 
charcoal, cinchona, benzoin, equal parts. Mix. 
At the October meeting of the Veterinary Medical Associa¬ 
tion of New York County there were present as visitors Prof. 
Olof Schwarzkopf, formerly of Chicago, but now engaged in 
practice in Flushing, L. I., and Dr. Nicolas, of Mount Vernon, 
N. Y. 
The Antivivisection Pledge. —“ I pledge to never 
knowingly employ a physician practising or upholding vivisec¬ 
tion unless in case of immediate danger or death.” The anti- 
vivisectionist is evidently as great a foe to grammar as she is to 
any other science. 
Hydrophobia in Prussia. —According to official statistics, 
107 persons died of hydrophobia in Prussia in the years from 
1877 to 1894, but there was not a single death from that cause 
in 1895, although 368 cases of mad dogs were reported and 906 
suspected animals, in addition, were killed by the police. 
Dr. C. J. SihlER, for several years inspector in charge of 
government inspection at the Kansas City stock yards and sev¬ 
eral large slaughter houses in that city, and more recently doing 
special work for the B. A. I., in California, has resigned, and 
will enter on the practice of his profession in Kansas City. 
An Expectorant Mixture. —Espagne (Semaine medicate ; 
Progres medicate^ 1897) is eredited with the fol¬ 
lowing formula: E syrup of ipeeac, 8 to 10 parts ; syrup of 
tolu, brandy or rum, each 20 parts. Potassium bromide, i 
part. Einden water 75 parts. Mix. Sig.: A tablespoonful 
every two hours. 
President Trumbower, of the Illinois State Veterinary 
Medical Association, writes the Review that he has called a 
meeting of that association to take place at the Sherman House, 
Chicago, on November 3d and 4th, in conjunction with the 
Chicago Veterinary Society, and that he has assurances of an 
interesting programme. 
Adulteration of Foods and Drugs. —The Department 
