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R. S. H UIDEKOPER. 
Cotton wool, tow, oakum, jute, turf moSs, sawdust and many 
other materials are used for surgical dressings. They can be 
impregnated with such antiseptics as the surgeon considers in¬ 
dicated. In veterinary practice the animal must be tied or se¬ 
cured so that he cannot bite or tear the dressings and bandages 
off. 
I tiust that I have said enough to inspire veterinarians to be 
more painstaking in their routine manipulations and operations. 
If there is any part of the routine practice that veterinarians 
aie remiss in it is in carrying out the principles of aseptic and 
antiseptic surgery. The same principles apply to major sur¬ 
gery, and the practitioner who applies these in his everyday 
piactice will be able to apply them also and obtain better re¬ 
sults in such major operations as he has to perform. 
\\ e want in the veterinary profession to-day men with com¬ 
mon sense, common honesty and ability and a disposition to do 
the ordinary routine practice methodically and well, who will 
piactice up on the latest scientific aseptic and antiseptic methods ; 
men who are willing to confine their efforts to the legitimate 
limits of the profession ; men who are horsemen in the highest 
sense of-the term, but who are not horse dealers, horse jockeys 
or liverymen ; men who are working to earn all the money they 
can legitimately, but who would not sell their birthright for a 
“ mess of pottage.” 
AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICINE. 
By R. S. Huidekoper, Vet. (Aeeort). 
Response to a Toast at the Banquet given to Prof. A.. Liautard, at the 25th Anniversary 
of the American Veterinary College, Manhattan Hotel, 
New York, September 5th, 1899. 
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: 
The toast given to me to respond to, “American Veterinary 
Medicine,” is so closely associated with the man whom we 
meet to do honor to to-night, that what I can say in response to 
