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solution of carbolic acid, and throwing all the liquid off of the 
tooth pick, touch the ulcer with the stick thus prepared. 
Wm. Henry Arrowsmith, D. V. S., of Jersey City, N. J., 
died on Thursday, Dec. 21, of a complication of diseases. He 
graduated from the A. V. C. in 1883, and enjoyed a very large 
and lucrative practice, having erected at 374 Bergen Avenue, 
a few years ago, one of the most complete infirmaries in the 
country, which he maintained up to the time of his death. He 
was President of the New Jersey Veterinary Medical Associa¬ 
tion, Veterinarian to the Jersey City Fire Department, and the 
County and City Boards of Health. 
Germany Fights American Meat.— A Berlin cablegram 
to the Associated Press states that the officers of the National 
Butchers’ guild will this week consider the advisability of call¬ 
ing a congress of European butchers to devise steps against the 
increasing competition of American meat. The guild has dis¬ 
tributed during the last two months millions of posters and 
pamphlets on this subject. The main fight will be made in the 
Reichstag on the meat inspection bill. The Agrarian papers 
are resuming their campaign against American meat. 
Geanders in South Africa. —While war news cannot 
always be relied upon, enough conflicting cables reach us of 
the spreading of glanders among the horses and mules of the 
British army in South Africa to make it certain that the dis¬ 
ease is assuming large proportions. One account says that four 
hundred horses have been killed ; another that the mules im¬ 
ported from America are largely affected, half a hundred having 
been killed and twice as many isolated. Will not these alarm¬ 
ing reports impress our Congress with the necessity for an effi¬ 
cient army veterinary corps? 
Anaesthesia by Eeectricity.— “ A method of producing 
anaesthesia by the direct application of an electrical current with¬ 
out the use of drugs was recently described by Dr. E. W. Scrip¬ 
ture, of Yale, before the American Association for the Advance¬ 
ment of Science,” says the Scientific American . “ An ah 
ternating current with equal positive and negative phases was 
made to traverse the nerve. At a proper frequency of about 
five thousand complete periods in a second, it can be made to 
cut off all sensatory communication by this nerve. Needles can 
be run into the part of the body supplied by this nerve without 
any pain being felt.” 
Bueeetin No. 53, of the Texas Agricultural Experiment 
Station, treats of “ Texas Fever,” and includes the results of 
