The Yale expositor., 1897-02-05

n medicine in the
veterinary department of Columbia
university, says the Washington Post.
This institution is novel one and is
an experiment in this section of the
country. 1t is a combined boarding
house and hospital for all dogs fortu-
nate enough to have friends who can
afford to indulge them in this luxury.
The building is one story high, forty
feet long and twenty feet wide.
Through the center of it is corridor
extending the length of the building
and opening on this corridor are
twelve cozy rooms, five on each side
and two at the north end. Each OF
these small rooms is fitted up with
hardwood and is heated by hot-water
pipes so adjusted that the heat may
be shut off from one and maintained
in others as desired The rooms have a
large window and a door opening to
the run" or playground, and venti-
lator over the door opening on the cor
riGor.
These rooms are divided into wards
for the occupancy OF dogs having con-
tagious diseases, such as mango and
distemper; for invalid dogs having all
ments that are not contagious, includ-
ing accidents, and for boarders, which
are generally pets left there while the
owner is out of the city. The arrange
ment Of the wards is such thatShe ami
mails suffering from contagious dis
eases are completely isolated from
their canine brethren.
At the south end of the corridor the
operating room is on one side and the
dispensary on the other. This oper-
ating room is supplied with hot and
cold water, a uncovered operating
table so arranged that all blood and
water is conveyed from it to the sewer
by pipes. In this room DR.. French
performs all of his surgical treatment,
from the amputation of leg to enter
otomy. He recently had a notable
case of the latter class.
A pet dachshund owned by Miss
Dorothy Rockhill, daughter of the as
sistant secretary of state, recently
while playing swallowed a peach stone
that he had picked up along the
street His suffering became intense
and 1t was feared that the animal
would have to be shot Miss Rockhill
was greatly attached to the little pet,
which, because OF his mischievous ma
ture, was called "Sin," and before con-
senting to his being killed she con-
suited DR.. French. The animal was
taken to the infirmary and the difficult
operation of enterotomy was success
| fully performed and now "Sin" is as
| lively in the house of the assistant
secretary of state as ever.
Pet dogs suffer much from toothache
and the extraction of the offending
teeth is a daily occurrence at the in
| Urinary. A few days ago a well-known
society lady took her little pet King
| Charles spaniel to the infrmaFy for
treatment. The dog was blanketed
and carried in her arms as she left
her carriage and walked to the build
ing. The owner appeared to be greatly
distressed over the suffering of the dog
and she begged DR.. French to cure it.
| An examination showed that the ami
NAL had toothache and when informed
that the offending tooth could easily
be extracted the society lady cried:
"Oh, no, doctor, not for the world.
He would be a sight with front tooth
gone. Can't you fill it?"
DR.. French had never filled a tooth
and is not dentist, but he knew how
the work should be done and he re-
Piled:
Certainly, madam; leave the SPAN
lei with me for three days and L will
have him all right"
The society lady departed in her car
riege and DR.. French an hour later
was in the office of a dentist. After
consultation the doctor returned to
the infirmary and the dentist accom-
panied him. The animal was placed
on the operating table, put under tho
influence of an anesthetic, and, while
DIR. French watched the pulse the
dentist buried out the cavity, and in
an hour had placed a gold filling in
the TOOTH filling which glistened in
the sunlight as perfectly as If 1t had
been in the incisor of "a human being.
When the owner Of the dog called for
him she was delighted with the work
and the fee she left was proportionate
with her delight.
Attached to the infirmary is bath
room, where the dogs receive a sham
poo and shower bath as. often as re-
quired. DR.. French has, had plans
] drawn for Turkish bath for these
pets, which he will build in the spring.
He is also having an ambulance built
which will be about the size of an or
I binary delivery wagon, but will be
1'cushioned and arranged for the pur-
pose it will be put to.