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guilty it will be a salutary lesson to others and a great benefit to 
veterinarians. ^ 
Hog Chol^a Antitoxin.— The Bureau of Animal Iii- 
ustry IS firm in its faith in the curative and protective power 
ot Its antitoxic serum in hog cholera. The use of this serum 
in infected herds is said to have saved 8o per cent, during the 
past calendar year, and we are informed that in the last few 
months the methods of its preparation and use have been con¬ 
siderably improved, so that a higher degree of efficiency is 
hoped for. It is believed that a practical method of preventing 
the greater part of loss from swine plague has been finally 
worked out, although the Bureau awaits the results of the ex¬ 
periments planned for this year before claiming absolute assur¬ 
ance in the matter.— (^Breeder’s Gazette.) 
r'l, Mistaken.—I ll the opening address of Prof. 
Charles P. Lyman before the students of the Veterinary Depart¬ 
ment of Harvard University on Oct. 3, occurs the following 
paragraph, as reported in the Boston Globe: “Prof. Lyman’s 
subject was ‘ A History of Veterinary Medicine.’ He said that 
the Lgyptians practiced veterinary surgery in very remote times, 
but that modern medicine dated from Hippocrates, both for 
mankind and animals. In the United States there were few 
schools before 1857. In that year there was established the 
. . C.^ V. S. Out of this grew the American Veterinary Col- 
legC’ which did not at first admit students. Then came the new 
school founded by Harvard University, which gave students a 
term ot three years of nine months each. The University of 
Pennsylyania and Cornell soon established schools modeled after 
that of Harvard.’’ What the learned director of Harvard could 
have meant when he said the American “ did not at first admit 
s udents is hard to conceive, as all contemporaneous veterina¬ 
rians know that it entered into active teaching upon its'inaii- 
guration, with quite a number of matriculants. 
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