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to health, in the quantities usually eaten, in fact, the prepond¬ 
erance of evidence is that they were not, but that is not the 
question. Is it right, is it just, when, having sufficient confi¬ 
dence in a butcher to purchase our meat supply of him, sup¬ 
posing we are getting good, wholesome, first-class meat, that we 
should be furnished with sick and diseased stuff, which, if we had 
seen previous to slaughter, nothing could have tempted us to 
eat of it ? 
We have no objection to such meat being sold for just 
what it is, and let those who are willing to buy it do so, but 
when man’s cupidity will allow him to lower himself so low 
that for dollars and cents he is willing to so trifle with our 
stomachs, it is time that we used our best endeavors to secure 
a law wffiereby such things would be reduced to the lowest 
minimum of possibility. 
BONE SPAVIN. 
By F. Harvey, M. D., D. V. S., Baetimore, Md. 
In suggesting the following treatment for bone spavin I am 
aware that it is one which could not be carried out in all cases, 
but still, by the expenditure of a certain amount of diligence 
and care, there are not many cases to which the treatment could 
not be applied. For those veterinarians who have hospitals and 
all conveniences, I believe it to be an ideal treatment. I have 
only treated one case of this kind, but that was a success, and 
I hope that I may hear in the future that others have treated 
cases with success. Perhaps the success in my case was not 
due to any particular form of treatment, and for that reason I 
am anxious to hear if others have used a similar treatment, or 
if so, what results they obtained. 
I am aware that I am suggesting nothing new to the pro¬ 
fession as far as the general principle of the treatment is con¬ 
cerned, but only wish to call attention to its application in this 
particular disease. 
The first steps in treatment are similar to those usually 
