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Veterinary Surgeon. 
The University of - has conferred on -- M.D. V.S., of -, the 
honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Pit. D), in recognition of 
the valuable services he has rendered the College by his popular 
lectures over the State, thus elevating the standard of the Veterinary 
calling among the farmers generally .— Record & Farmer. 
The reverse side of this wonderfully professional business card 
is yet even queerer, for it bears the copy of a letter written the 
advertising professional gentleman away back in October, ’72, by 
a certain Governor, acknowledging the doctor’s wonderful skill in 
veterinary lore, and authorizing him to visit the different parts 
of the State to render to the farmers his valuable aid and assist¬ 
ance. Now this is all very commendable, and is a matter that 
any man would be proud of, but why in heaven’s name does so 
able a practitioner, one so abundantly qualified to practice in with 
the human or veterinary branch of the medical profession, de¬ 
scend to the methods of the vilest of quacks ? Thus then, Mr. 
Editor, have I attempted to show what seems to me to be the one 
great disease that the honorable growth of our profession has to 
fear—parasitism—the doings of these men who are of us and 
still not of us, who hold the diplomas of colleges, but still are bas¬ 
tards to their alma mater. The remedy is plain but disagreeable, 
“ vis unit a fortiori' 
INSTRUMENT FOR APPLICATION OF STEAM, 
We received some time ago from Dr. T. D. Beer, of Boston, 
an apparatus which we have tried and found answering all the pur¬ 
poses and advantages claimed for it, amongst which are those of 
applying hot air upon any part of the body, either locally or as a 
general bath. 
