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tries. Much success is reported by breeders who have em¬ 
ployed it, one claiming 23 successes in 24 attempts. The 
method is very simple : When copulation has occurred the 
overflow semen is scraped from the vagina upon withdrawal 
of the penis by being collected into the capsules and sealed. A 
capsule or two is then inserted into the uterus of a mare in 
oestrum, and few failures are said to occur. 
Ancient Therapeutics. —Those who fancy the “ good, old- 
fashioned remedies ” of our forefathers ought to try the follow¬ 
ing, which was given in public print in England in 1681. The 
trouble for which the cure is recommended is common enough 
still, in all conscience. Here is the formula: “The master 
medicine of all medicines for a back-sinew strain, or any grief, 
pain, straitness, shrinking or numness of joynts or sinews: 
Take a fatte sucking Mastive whelp, slay it and flay it and bowel 
it; then stop the body as full as it can hold with gray snails and 
black snails, then waste it at a reasonable fire. When it begins 
to warme, baste it with six ounces of the oyl of spike made 
yellow with saffron, and six ounces of the oyl of wax. Then 
save the drippings and what moysture soever falls from it, 
whilst any drop will fall from the whelp, and keep it in a gally- 
pot. With this oyntment anoint the strain and worke it in very 
hot, holding a bar of iron before it. And thus do morning and 
evening till the cure be finished.” 
Editor Hoskins, of the Journal , is one of the most versa¬ 
tile and insatiable of veterinarians, ever on the alert for new 
fields to conquer. He is the head of a large private practice in 
Philadelphia ; editor and publisher of the Journal of Compara¬ 
tive Medicine; publisher of several text and reference works 
connected with the veterinary profession ; professor of jurispru¬ 
dence at the University of Pennsylvania; president of the 
Atlantic Wave Motor Co. (by which the power of the white 
caps is to be utilized for the generation of commercial electric¬ 
ity); an officer of the Atlantic City Artificial Ice Company; a 
cold-storage warehouse in the same city ; an active worker and 
regular attendant upon all veterinary medical associations within 
a radius of one hundred miles of the City of Brotherly Eove ; 
besides having time to engage in the active politics of his native 
city. Surely he is a worker of energy and versatility, and 
deserves both riches and renown in exchange for the expendi¬ 
ture of so much vitality. 
A Prolific Bloodhound. —Dr. A. E. Metzger writes the 
Review as follows : “ I have to report a bloodhound bitch that 
