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The Horseshoeing Fraternity have a much better 
method of supporting its journals than the veterinarians. A 
local association appropriates sufficient money to place its rep¬ 
resentative magazine, The Horseshoers ’ Journal , in the hands 
of each of its members. Both the organ of the craft and the 
craftsmen are thus benefitted and strengthened. By the way, 
few professions or trades have a more progressive and interest¬ 
ing exponent than the Journal. While veterinary associations 
can scarcely be expected to follow the example of the local 
horseshoers’ unions, clubs composed of individual members 
could be the rule of associations rather than the exception, as at 
present, and the organizer of the club would receive liberal com¬ 
pensation from the publishers. Try it, and you will be doing 
your profession a real service. 
A New Treatment for BAstula. —Dr. W. T. Campbell, 
of Cincinnati, O. ( Journal of Comparative Medicine and Veter¬ 
inary Archives , June, 1900), states that veterinarians have long 
experienced the need of a remedy for fistula that would be less 
irritating than the ordinary caustics and still stronger in action 
than the mild antiseptips. Recently he has found protargol to 
be just the thing for such cases, since, although not as irritating 
as nitrate of silver, it possesses the same bactericidal effect. In 
several cases of fistulas of various origin he employed injections 
of a solution of protargol 10 parts, glycerin 50 parts, and water 
40 parts, injected with a syringe three times daily. Under 
these injections in connection with internal medication the dis¬ 
charge rapidly subsided, and the fistula healed more promptly 
and permanently than had been previously observed under other 
forms of treatment. 
The “ New York Medical Journal ” Changes Owners. 
—The ownership of the New York Medical Journal has passed 
from the publishing-house of D. Appleton & Company to Mr. 
A. R. Klliott, an advertising agent of this city. We under¬ 
stand, however—we certainly hope—that the editorial depart¬ 
ment will remain in charge of the present editor, to whose able 
management for so many years the journal owes its high pro¬ 
fessional standing. This change has been anticipated for some 
time, for it was learned last spring, at the time of the tempo¬ 
rary embarrassment of this old and honored publishing-house, 
that some of their publications, notably the Nezv York Medical 
Journal , were financially unprofitable. Notwithstanding an 
actual subscription list of something over six thousand, and an 
advertising patronage of upward of forty pages per week, the 
