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entitled to continue the practice of veterinary medicine and 
surgery. Every applicant who shall have complied with the 
foregoing provisions, and shall be admitted to registration, shall 
pay to the Clerk of said county the sum of two dollars, which 
shall be received as full compensation for such registration. 
§ V.—Any person who shall present to the Clerk for the pur¬ 
pose of registration any diploma or certificate which has been 
fraudulently obtained, or shall practice veterinary medicine and 
surgery without conforming to the requirements of this Act, or 
shall otherwise violate or neglect to comply with any of the 
provisions of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
shall for each and every offence be punished by a fine of not less 
than fifty dollars, nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars, 
or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term of not less than 
niutey days, nor more than two years, or by both fine and 
imprisonment. But nothing in this bill shall be construed to 
prohibit students from prescribing under the supervision of 
preceptors, or to prohibit gratuitous services in case of emergency, 
or to prohibit the services of an authorized practitioner of a 
neighboring State when incidentally called into requisition. 
§ VI.—This Act shall take effect immediately. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
ON THE USE OF MORPHIA. 
Spencer, Iowa, Jan. 21, 1886. 
Dear Sir : I noticed in a number of the Review last summer 
an article which appeared at the time to me to be a pretty strong 
drawn fable with reference to the amount of morphia which a 
certain old horse took with apparent benefit. My doubts are all 
dispelled, however, by a case I had recently. Mr. J. L. Hewitt, 
of this place, called on me to give him something to give an old 
family horse which was too old by several years to be of any use 
to him and whose life appeared to be a burden to herself; some 
thing which would comfortably ease her out of existence. I gave 
