NEWS AND ITEMS. 
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'‘A Guide -to Health and Disinfection,’’that‘‘Sanitas ” disin¬ 
fecting- fluid was an excellent preparation for use in the bath, 
and the Doctor concludes his remarks by saying : “ Surely Kiim 
David used a similar bath to enable him to walk through pesti¬ 
lence unscathed.” We do not suppose that the Doctor meant 
to state absolutely that this eminent king used “ Sanitas ” as 
we find it on the market to-day, but it is quite possible that dur¬ 
ing his lifetime he may have absorbed considerable quantities 
of^ the active principles that the “ Sanitas ” preparations con¬ 
tain, and have been benefitted thereby, for they are prepared in 
strict imitation of nature’s process of converting the essential 
oils given off from the balsam^, the pines, the eucalyptus trees, 
etc., into such oxidized compounds that they bring to the sys¬ 
tem oxygen in a form that can be freed as peroxide of hydro¬ 
gen. Possibly had the concentrated product as prepared by 
the Sanitas Co., Limited, been available and used by the said 
king, he might have lived longer. The Sanitas preparations 
are extensively used by veterinary surgeons not only for dressing 
wounds, etc., but in the treatment of many diseases, and A. J. 
Sewell, M. R. C. V. S., writes of the satisfactory treatment 
obtained from the use of “Sanitas” disinfecting fluid in cases 
of canker of the ear and skin diseases; and from “ Sanitas ” 
oil in the treatment of follicular mange. They also manu¬ 
facture an excellent preparation for use in kennels known 
as^ “Sanitas” disinfecting sawdust. Write them at No. 636 
West 55th Street, New York City, for a copy of their book 
How to Disinfect,” which is full of useful information. 
Germany Doesn’t Like the Competition of Ameri¬ 
can Horses. The Prussian Minister of Agriculture announced 
last week that horses from this country develop influenza after 
importation, and stated that if importations increase he will be 
forced to adopt suitable quarantine protection. This announce¬ 
ment nieets with very vigorous response in Washington. Secre¬ 
tary Wilson says that the statements of the Prussian Minister 
are unwarranted, and Dr. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau of Ani¬ 
mal Industry, declares there is no influenza in this country so 
far as the Department of Agriculture can learn, and that if a 
horse suffering from the disease were shipped he would either 
be dead or recovered by the time he landed on German shores, 
as the duration of the disease is about two weeks, while it takes 
from two to three weeks for the freight boats to make the trans¬ 
atlantic voyage. Importations are likely to increase, as 224 
horses left Chicago alone last week for Germany and the short- 
