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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
post-graduate cour.se. A notice of this to be sent to every 
graduate. 
The election of officers resulted in the selection of Dr. J. M. 
Parker, Haverhill, Mass., President; Dr. A. W. Cleaves, West 
Gardner, Mass., Secretary-Treasurer, and a board of six 
trustees. 
The date and place of the next reunion is to be decided 
upon by the officers. 
NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Dr. G. W. Waiters, of Brooklyn, has retired from practice 
and removed to his farm in Delaware. 
Painless Blister. —The following is recommended in 
the Medical Record: Jji Mentholis, chloralis, aa gr.xx ; ol. 
theobrom., 3 ss ; spermaceti, 3 i. M. et fiat past. Sig. apply. 
Malpractice is defined by a writer in the Philadelphia 
Medical Journal as u conduct on the part of the physician 
which does not conform to certain standards and which results 
in the injury of the patient.” 
Dr. H. D. Gill recommends the hypodermic injection 
hourly of two drams of a solution of camphor and ether (i:io) 
as a heart stimulant in critical conditions around the crisis of 
lung inflammations. 
While automobiles were being stalled by a snowstorm of 
only moderate proportion in New York the middle of February 
$125,000 worth of trotting horses were sold at Madison Square 
Garden. A yearling brought over $2000. 
Veterinarian W. T. Monsarrat, of Honolulu, H. I., 
was a competitor for the amateur photographic prize of Les¬ 
lie'' s Weekly recently. His last effort was a well executed re¬ 
production of the burning of the plague-infested buildings in 
Honolulu. 
The New York Speedway has stimulated so much 
interest and rivalry in the light harness horse that the horse¬ 
men of every city where such horses are at all popular are either 
constructing one or are discussing means for obtaining one. 
The practicing veterinarian can look upon such efforts with 
complacency. 
Famous Old Maud S. was shown but not offered at the 
dispersal sale of the late Robert Bonner’s horses in New York 
last month. Foaled in 1874, her companions had to keep a 
respectful distance from her heels, her old disposition to kick 
