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Preston horseman telling me of a trainer whom he had recently 
visited said : ‘ I found him putting on some of-spavin 
cure.’ Then it occurred to me to write for the result, and I am 
just in receipt of the reply, which is as follows : u Yes, I have 
used-spavin cure. I call it a genuine humbug. It will 
scar—kill hide and hair—and will produce a heavy growth on 
any flesh it may be used upon. It did cure lameness, but the 
cure is worse than the disease.’ ” This would indicate that there 
is to be no revolution in the treatment of spavin. The wisdom 
of the ages is not to be overturned by awkward English and the 
destruction of tissue.”— (Af. T. G. in Breeder's Gazettei) 
Advertising with a Vengeance. —The following adver¬ 
tisement, clipped from an Illinois newspaper, was forwarded to 
us by a western correspondent, and occupied a double-column 
space, with large display letters for the principal lines : “ Dr. E. 
H. Herring, Perry, Illinois, Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist. 
Graduate Chicago Veterinary College. Two Years Course. 
The branches taught are theory and practice of Veterinary 
Medicine, anatomy, cattle pathology, physics and chemistry, 
physiology, materia medica, helminthology, veterinary surgery 
and obstetrics, microscopy, histology, morbid anatomy, veterinary 
dentistry, gross pathology and bacteriology. Diseases and their 
treatment of all the domesticated animals. Remember I am no 
Quack Horse Doctor. I have no near relative who was a veteri¬ 
nary surgeon die and 4 will ’ his veterinary knowledge to me. I 
do not ask the people of Perry to educate me; I paid my good 
hard money and took a two years’ course in one of the best Vet¬ 
erinary Colleges in America. I practiced my profession at Mt. 
Sterling, Ill., for 6 years ; so I have had the practical experience 
as well as the theory. Many bad cases will get well if given 
‘colored water,’ and this is where the quack horse doctors make 
their ‘ mark.’ A qualified veterinarian can save many valuable 
animals by his knowledge of medicine that the so-called veteri¬ 
nary surgeon (quack) would not even know what was the matter, 
but would give a few doses of medicine and look wise, but in spite 
of his wonderful medical skill the poor animal dies, perhaps 
hurried into eternity by a wrong dose of medicine. I say boldly 
that one cannot be a veterinary surgeon without a knowledge of 
the anatomy of the horse ; (I have made two complete dissec¬ 
tions of the horse) neither can one prescribe medicine success¬ 
fully without a good knowledge of chemistry, physiology and 
medicine, and its physiological classification. If one doesn’t 
know anything about medicine and the diseases of our domesti- 
