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New Book. —Prof. Stewart’s new book on “ Feeding Ani¬ 
mals” will not appear before August. This work will also in¬ 
clude the subjects of Buildings, Proper Ventilation, etc. 
Ancient Surgery. —A remarkable collection of surgical in¬ 
struments has been discovered at Pompeii and removed to the 
Naples Museum. It evidently belonged to one practitioner or 
establishment, and is as large an equipment as the modern sur¬ 
geon is usually supplied with. 
Correction. —T. L. Harrison, in The Live Stock Journal , re 
fers to an article in the Review, which lie interprets as advocating 
inoculation for pleuro-pneumonia. We intended to say that this 
disease should be stamped out , and if this is not done, that inocu¬ 
lation is the only remedy. 
Pennsylvania free from Lung Plague. —Dr. J. W. Gadson, 
State Veterinarian of Pennsylvania, writes us, under date of May 
31st, that he is now able to certify the State free from the lung 
plague, and that it has been free for the past three months.— 
Breeders Gazette. 
The Danish Veterinary Society has offered a prize of 2,000 
francs, and a second of 1,000 francs, for the best essays on the 
benefits to living animals which have resulted from vivisection. 
The essays may be written in Danish, Swedish, English, French, 
or German. 
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A rumor that pleuro pneumonia had broken out in Pottawa¬ 
tomie county, Kansas, has been promptly denied by the stockmen 
of that locality. But it is still asserted that black leg or some¬ 
thing similar has appeared in Morris county.— Prairie Farmer. 
Interesting Statistics. —The report of the number of dead 
animals received at the rendering dock of the city of New York 
for the year ending March, 1882, shows that 8,000 horses, 150 
cows, about 200 sheep and 23,000 dogs were received at that 
establishment. An inquiry might be made, where are the hogs 
which died in New York, or are found dead in the trucks of the 
railroads which bring so many of those animals into our metrop¬ 
olis— are they turned into hams and sausages ? Our Board of 
Health might enlighten the public in answering the question. 
