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reading at all can afford to do without your valuable publica¬ 
tion. Hope that your circulation may be more than doubled.” 
—Herbert S. Perley^ Ottawa^ Ontario. 
—“ I enclose draft for two new subscribers both to begin 
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Kansas City, Mo., and Dr. S. E. Bennett, Bureau Animal In¬ 
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of the most essential factors in maintaining interest in associa¬ 
tion work.”— W. A. Heck.^ South St. Joseph., Mo. 
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of Schmidt’s article on ‘ Parturient Paresis.’ I have had splen¬ 
did success in three cases of parturient apoplexy, all making 
good recoveries. I sent to Hausman & Dunn, Chicago, and 
got a large tube, which I used in the prescribed manner, giving 
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CORRESPONDENCE. 
A CALL TO THE VETERINARIANS OF ILLINOIS. 
Kankakee, III., December 15, 1898. 
To the Me^nbers of the Profession in Illinois : 
Gentlemen : — At the last annual meeting of the Illinois 
State Veterinary Medical Association, held in Chicago, Novem¬ 
ber 16 and 17, 1898, it was decided to again take such action as 
would secure the passage of a law regulating the practice of 
veterinary medicine and surgery in this State. With this ob¬ 
ject in view, it was decided to call upon each and every mem¬ 
ber of the veterinary profession in this State, to ask of the 
Senator and Representatives of his district, either by a personal 
interview or by letter, to give their active aid and support to 
secure the passage of a just and equitable law that will place 
the members of the veterinary profession in this State on an 
equal basis with those of the other learned professions. 
The next meeting of the State Association will be held at 
the Eeland Hotel in Springfield, February 15, 1899. All quali¬ 
fied members of the profession in this State, whether members 
