CORRESPONDENCE. 
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and worms indiscriminately mixed, is not inviting because a 
member wishing to be present during the discussion on tuber¬ 
culosis and being a trifle early or late (no definite time for the 
discussion having been fixed) gets colic or worms instead, and, 
by the time the next paper in which he is interested is pre¬ 
sented he has probably become weary if not comatose. 
By the time the Journal for December appears, we hope it 
will have discovered that sectional work has been in operation 
for a number of years, and that, if the section on sanitary 
medicine will grant the general practitioners moderate freedom 
of action, allowing them to carry out such a programme as 
they may deem of greatest importance to themselves, the prac¬ 
titioners cheerfully returning the compliment, the programme 
would move so harmoniously as to remove all complaint of 
lack of time, more general practitioners would attend, the sec¬ 
tion on sanitary medicine would have larger and more atten¬ 
tive audiences and the A. V. M. A. would contribute far more 
u to the diffusion of true science and particularly to the knowl¬ 
edge of veterinary medicine and surgery.” Practitioner. 
WHO AMONG OUR SCHOLARLY VETS CAN SUPPLY THIS LINK ? 
Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 17, 1900. 
Editors American Veterinary Review : 
Dear Sirs :— I make bold to ask for some information on 
the recommendation of Dr. Pritchard, of this city, whose card I 
enclose. I am engaged in a search for the origin of the word 
“ Hoosier,” and am trying to trace the probability of its deriva¬ 
tion from “hoose,” which you know as the local English name 
of the disease caused by strongylus micrurus. Can you tell me 
whether in England an animal with this disease is known in 
vernacular as a u hooser ” or “boozer,” and if you are not famil¬ 
iar with the dialect or have no handy reference book for it, can 
vou refer me to anyone in England who would be apt to know ? 
This may seem a crazy sort of inquiry, but if you can give me 
any light I will be under great obligations. 
Yours truly, J. P. Dunn, 
Editor Sentinel . 
corneal ulcers. 
Ithaca, N. Y., Jan. 22, 1900. 
Editors American Veterinary Review): 
Dear Sirs :—On page 764 of January Review I note a 
