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The question is how to lessen such results. In the case of 
the lame horse, we believe the tendency among most practi¬ 
tioners is to give too favorable a prognosis ; that is, in order to 
make the treatment more enticing, the date of recovery is too 
much curtailed. They know that if the client is told that by 
firing and blistering his lame horse he cannot hope to have him 
back into service for three months that the chances are it will 
not be undertaken, and the prospective fee vanishes. The truth 
should be the only guide. Reputations are worth more than 
the few dollars that injure the recipient in the end. 
In the second case, medical treatment should not cease until 
the patient has entirely recovered, appetite and all. The 
stomachics, mild and unirritating, will be beneficial to the 
patient in more ways than one. The principal good they do is 
to keep the owner from harmful meddling, and the practitioner 
will receive ample credit for his part in the recovery. 
A veterinarian without a certain amount of business diplo¬ 
macy will find many instances where his reputation will suffer, 
while his brother, with more skill in the handling of men, will 
o-ather laurels, as well as shekels. We have no intention of 
advising that this be carried to the extent of humbuggery, but 
it is conscientious medical treatment where the patient is pro¬ 
tected at the same time that the practitioner’s local reputation 
is taken care of. 
DR. SCHWARZKOPF OFF FOR CHINA. 
Olof Schwarzkopf, V. M. D., known wherever English vet¬ 
erinary literature is read, who recently underwent a stringent 
civil service examination for appointment as veterinary sur¬ 
geon, first-class, in the U. S. Army, was summoned to Washing¬ 
ton on July 19, and received orders to immediately proceed to 
China, with the Third Cavalry. The order was modified suf¬ 
ficiently to permit the Doctor to return home and arrange his af¬ 
fairs, and he left on the 26th. This was rather a harsh sum¬ 
mons for a starter; but, soldier-like, he obeyed without a mur¬ 
mur, and is at this writing on his perilous journey to the 
