VETERINARY CLASSICS.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1102, 29 August 1873, Page 3

VETERINARY CLASSICS.

The horse epidemic which lately passed through the cities of the United ■States with such violence, gave the " vets" an opportunity of displaying their Greek, in which they seem to have been rather more proficient than in the valuable art of curing this particular disease. Among the names vvith which they dignified the influenza (for •it was neither more nor less,) we find Epihippic, Hippozymotic, Hippozootic. Hippo Grippe, Cataarhal fever. Typhoid Laryngitis, Lung fever. Hippo-malaria, Epvzooty, Equine influenza, Hippie "distemper, and Equine catarrhal affection. One of the fraternity, however, ignored Greek, Latin, English, and "every other recognised language, and started one oil his own account, if we may ■credit the Canadian Medical Journal, the editor of which " has seen" the following bill, emanating from a St. Louis veterinarian : San* Lewis G&newerry the 4d 1878 Mr to james HanKox Vetturerinar.y physician and Surgeant Dr. Too medikle advice twict .-.-. §3 00 .!- Consultation over a ded mare ; sed to hev hed the eppzout 75 Goin to sett two sick bosses in the nite (very cold) ... 200 To treetment of a kream kolored boss two days with medisuns ... ... 4 50 To makin an obstetrikul eXaminashun of a hosses throat .; 1 50 To settin up all nitc in a barn with a sick boss... ... 2 50 To writin a preeskripshun for bottSj & also one for spaving .;. ... ..i 100 To holding a postmortim examinasbun on a hoss who afterwards recovered ... i 50 To givin my opinyun one day on the street regardin the cause of the zobt ... 4 00 Totil ; ; . «. 420 75 Oitr Contemporary humorously adds tbat the gentleman who received the above will not contest the same to account of the Charges, but will pay in cheerfully as soon as he receives a remittance from his parents;