The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-16

Tn these days of advancement m fn< medical sciences quite as much atten- ton is being paid. prcportfonateiy. te the health. and care of animals as tc men. Anirnals are properly housed V a sanitary manner. They are beine ! treated with moro consideration than ever before. When taken sick they are doctored by veterinarians as skill- cd in their profession as are the physi' clans who deal with human diseases Perhaps the most striking proof of the increased consideration man is giving to his four-footed friends is found n the existence of animal hospitals.
 There are said to be a score or more of these institutions scattered through out the United States. but located prfn- cipaiiy in the large cities. This does not take into account the hospitals at- tached to the geological gardens where men. women and children obtain anuse- ment and instruction by observing the beasts. The animal hospitals are as we'll equipped as are sfmilar institu' tions which administer only to suffer ing mankind.
 The frst hospital for animals on this continent is said to have been estab- iished In New York city, but Toronto Canada. contests the claim. whichever may be entitled to the honor, nobody will deny that those of both New York and Toronto, as well aH animal hos pitfalls elsewhere. are doing great deal of goods
 The records of an animal hospital ir a large city are full of human, as well as animal interest. They show how the elite among the, quadruped and feathered denizens of the town have been snatched from the jaws of death At q, washington hospital for animals for instance. Pete" the White House bulldog, who made himself famous by tearing a piece from the aristocratis trousers of the French Ambassador has been q frequent patient Pete'i bench ant for quarreling has necessi. tated his being patched up repeatedly by the animal doctor. Archie Roose- welt was . frequent caller at the insti- tution to see how his four-footed chum was conwalescing. The animal doctor the other White House dogs were ban. ished to Oyster Bay.
 Probably the most distinguished pa tfent ever trAated ak an animal hospital In the United States is tho famous Mancft& spaniel presented by the late Empress of China to Mrs. Alice Roose- welt Longworth, upon the occasion oi her visit 10 peling with President elect Taft's party. several years ago This dog of Chinese royalty has ped, igfee 1000 years old. When 1t fell ill it off to the animal hospital where iti health was soon restored. Peary's dog which had gone farthest north. broke his leg after returning to civilization and had to be doctored in New York.
 The number of cases originating in the households of the diplomatic corps is so great that the Washington animal hospitaI referred Co keeps French in tefpreter on It's stan to carry on its and their masters. Among the cele. brated patients of the Washington an. imal hospital have been dogs belong. ing to Admiral Dewey, CounteMs Cassi- nj, Sir Mortimer Durand, the formel British Ambassador, and other distin- guished people.
 A we'll equipped animal hospital hal several yards. There is one ward foi animals afiicted with contagious dis. eases. Another ward is for those con. valescing from an illness or an opera ton In hospitals which treat both large and small animals. each class il usually kept separate from the other There gre separate operating rooms for these. In one there are block and tackle arrangements which are caDa. bIe of lifting horse or COW or ths hoof and holding tho animal yttl1 while it ie being operated on or otherwise treated. The operating room for anal animals is lined with tile like the op. sfating room of a we'll equipped hu- man, hospital There is an operating table and the room ia we'll furnished with surgical instruments and sanitary apparatus.
 Disinfectants, antiseptics and anaes- thetics are freely used in animal hos pitfalls. Some years ago etherD chloro- form. and chloral were the favorite anaesthetics. but now the tendency in the veterinary profession. as in surg- cry, is to use cocaine locally in prefef- ence to the general anaesthetica. Legs are set in plaster casts. wounds are dressed and internal ailments of ani- mals treated. When the patients are improving in health they are trans ferred to light, clean quarters. Some institutions have summer and winter quarters for the patients. The animal hospitals are lighted by electricity, and the floors are of cement. the ideal san- itary material. There are bath tubs where the society lady's. pet poodle and the spinster's tabby cat lake their daily plunge.