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OBITUARY. 
A Big Horse. —The Bridgeport Standard says that another 
big horse has arrived for the Barnum London Circuses. The 
animal is twenty-two hands high, weighs a trifle over 2,800 
pounds, and is a perfect monster, being fully a foot higher than 
the one they have now. 
Trichina at the Chicago Stock Yard. —An examination of 
400 pigs, taken at random in the packing houses at the stock 
yard, Chicago, by Dr. Baten, failed to reveal any trichina. These 
results, however, are different from any previous one, and the 
Board of Health contents itself in advising that all pork should 
be well cooked.— Medical Record. 
OBITUARY. 
Dr. E. HE RING. 
The oldest teacher of veterinary medicine, Dr. E. Hering, 
late Director of the Stuttgard Veterinary School, died recently 
at the age of 82 years, from an attack of cerebral congestion, 
which carried him off in four days. 
Known all over Europe by his numerous and important 
writings, Dr. Hering was honorary member of several medical, 
veterinary and agricultural societies. 
Amongst the numerous works which he wrote, and which are 
known by most veterinarians, are his Repertorium der Thierheil- 
kunde , CandalVs Jaresbericht , the classical works on special 
pathology and materia medica, and his Manual of Operative Vet¬ 
erinary Surgery , which was translated into the Italian and Rus¬ 
sian languages, and lately reached its fourth edition in German. 
The news of his death will be regretted by the veterinary 
profession all over the world. 
Prof. CORBYN. 
One of the oldest veterinary practitioners of Philadelphia, 
Prof. Corbyn, died lately at the age of 72. He practiced in that 
city for a period of forty years, and was connected with the Penn¬ 
sylvania College of Veterinary Surgeons. 
