Canine acral lick dermatitis is characterized by excessive licking on areas of one or more limbs, usually near the carpus or tarsus. In this prospective study, five dogs with acral lick dermatitis were treated with remote punishment utilizing precisely controlled, momentary shock from an electronic training collar. The problem resolved in four dogs. Resolution was defined as one month in which no shocks (i.e., no electronic shock collar worn) or Elizabethan collars were utilized and no licking had occurred sufficiently to recreate a gross skin lesion. Relapse during the follow-up period of six-to-12 months occurred in two dogs, but licking stopped after brief retraining periods.

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the cartilage, and an elliptical section of this was dissected off from the skin covering the anterior as¬ pect of the auricle, without wounding that integument. The portion of cartilage removed was not tmite as wide or long as the section of skin taken from the posterior surface of the auricle. The edges of the wountl were united by three sutures, which included the skin only, and the parts were dressed with ab¬ sorbent cotton and net bandage. Union by first intention occurred anel the sutures were removed the fifth day. However, the patient chose a pleasure excursion in preference to the clin¬ ics before the wound had healed thoroughly; the dressing became displaced and the wound was torn open along the centre. Consequently this portion of the wound healed later by granulation. There was but slight pain or swelling, and the child evinced no dread of an operation on the other ear except with respect to the ether.The result of the operation is that the auricle now projects but three-fourths of an inch instead of one and one-fourth inches, making a difference of onehalf inch between the projection before and after the operation. Besides this, the natural elevations and depressions which are requisite to the beauty of a well formed ear have been restored. I do not know that any surgeon has previously performed an operation identical with the one I have elevised, but when a learned professor informs the French Academy of Sciences that before the illus¬ trious Jenner was born, and "from a period so re¬ mote that it loses itself in the night of time," the inhabitants of Senegambia have practiced inocula¬ tion for the prevention of a contagious disease, I have not the temerity to call any operation new. A short time since I thought I had originated another new method of treatment, when to my surprise I learned that Dr. Sexton, of New York, had been ex¬ perimenting in the same direction, although he had not published the fact. Drs. Ely and Roosa have operated in a different manner to effect a similar re¬ sult. They transfixed the auricle at its junction with the side of the head, and removed the cartilage and the skin covering both the anterior and posterior surfaces.In December, 1883, I was called to see a boy, aged 13 years, who had been treated three weeks for rheumatism. On examination, I found the leg much swollen, very hot and painful, with marked fluctuation, the result of extensive periostitis. The boy was very an\l=ae\mic, and much exhausted. I opened the leg at its upper third, and anterior aspect, and discharged over a quart of pus and broken down tissue. A rubber band was applied, and a r est or at i ve course of treatment was given for four weeks, until the system could be restored sufficiently to permit the removal of the diseased bone. On January 30th, 1884, with the patient under influence of chl oroform, I began an incision close to the knee, and finding no sound bone, continued the same to the ankle; and by the use of the enucleator, separated the tibia from its epiphysis.The upper end having been loos...