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by inoculation and wait until the first manifestation of the dis¬ 
ease appears to inject the serum. This, it may be said, is inter¬ 
esting only to the theoretical point of view. 
Finally, serotherapy has also been tried for the treatment of 
foot-and-mouth disease. You know that the Imperial Govern¬ 
ment has appointed a commission to inquire into the means of 
immunizing animals against that disease. You also know that 
this commission and its president, Dr. Loeffier, have obtained 
in their laboratory surprising results ; they have demonstrated 
that animals immunized against foot-and-mouth disease give a 
serum, which mixed with virus, can be inoculated without dan¬ 
ger to healthy animals and give them immunity. These ani¬ 
mals are resistant to natural contagion. But the truth of the 
laboratory is not always that of practice; it is something differ¬ 
ent to make experiments where one is master of every condition 
in which he operates and that applying to practice the results 
obtained in the laboratory. You know that seraphine (a mix¬ 
ture of serum and virus) has been tried extensively in many 
countries, and that the results have been such that Doeffier was 
compelled to stop the inoculations to undertake the further 
studies. There is not the shade of a doubt that Doeffier will 
ultimately succeed in his researches and that on that day he 
will have rendered to the agriculture of the world a priceless 
service. 
By this rapid examination you can, gentlemen, judge of the 
progress which has been realized in a few years in the medicine 
of animals. 
It rests with yqu to vulgarize the knowledge of those meth¬ 
ods and to promote their application : veterinarians will prove 
to you, devoted collaborators, that they are well prepared for 
the work. 
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Dr. J. Miller, for a number of years in charge of govern¬ 
ment inspection at Ottumwa, Iowa, announces that there is a 
good opening there for a practical veterinarian. 
