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W. L. WILLIAMS. 
No. VIII .—Was too far gone for any treatment to do any 
o-ood, thoueh it did live several hours after the treatment was 
o> o 
administered. 
In addition to the treatment used as above described, the 
cases were all carefully watched and kept propped up as well as 
possible. Injections given per rectum, etc. 
The direction of Dr. Schmidt was followed as closely as 
possible, except that I used a syringe, pumping a continuous 
stream into the gland and then with the same instrument I 
forced in a quantity of air. I was at all times careful to have 
the instrument thoroughly aseptic, and in fact every precaution 
was used to prevent any septic poisoning. 
I should like to know wherein my treatment was lacking, 
that I could not obtain the brilliant results reported by some of 
our brother practitioners. This is a most important subject, 
and I hope we may have a general report of the experience of 
the veterinary profession at large. 
(.Reprinted from the Country Gentleman.') 
HEREDITARY DEFECTS OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 
By W. L. Williams, V. S., Ithaca, N. Y. 
The principles of breeding are founded on the tendency of 
parents to transmit to their offspring their own characteristics, 
whether good or bad, so that in selecting breeding animals it is 
quite as essential to avoid the one as to attain the other. A 
very excellent animal in a general way may be made useless 
because of some defect which the careful breeder could avoid. 
As we shall use the term “ hereditary,” it will signify the 
transmission of an essential, integral quality from parent to off¬ 
spring, and will not include the transmission of such diseases as 
tuberculosis, which is sometimes transmitted from mother to 
young prior to birth, simply by the transmission of the germs 
of the disease from the mother to the young annual in the womb, 
in much the same way as contagion would occur after birth. 
Domestication consists largely in the increased development 
of certain desirable qualities in an animal species, and the dwarf¬ 
ing or repressing of undesirable characteristics. While bring¬ 
ing about these changes through domestication, it is essential 
