858 ANALYSIS OF CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 
Journal Veterinaire, published at Paris by the Professors 
Dupuy and Vatel, and afterwards to continue it on his own 
account. 
“ The labour of medical journalism was that which was 
most compatible with the incessantly active life to which he 
was forced by his professional affairs. The periodical journal 
was as the register in which it pleased him to inscribe the 
facts of his extensive practice, and it allowed him to collect 
and make known a multitude of observations and memoirs 
which have benefited science. 
“ That which M. Leblanc has done with unflagging zeal-for 
fifty years has been the means of exciting others, for he had 
a maxim — that each was for all, especially in medical science, 
and that it was the duty of every one to do his best to in- 
crease the common patrimony by making known, through 
the usual channels of publicity, all that might, in one’s own 
practice, possess an exceptionally interesting character. M. 
Leblanc did much himself in this way, and he also achieved 
much by his example and advice. How much that has been 
published in his journal would never have seen the light if 
those who produced it had not been stimulated and encou- 
raged by him ! 
“This ardour for progress which animated M. Leblanc 
rendered him impatient of the inertia that he might observe 
in others, or the resistance they opposed to the realisation of 
his ideas. Thus it was that he was obliged to expend a 
large portion of his activity in struggles for the triumph of 
that which he believed to be, and which was in fact, often a 
good cause. Many pages of his journal are occupied by po- 
lemical discussions, in which the just limits of conscience and 
moderation were sometimes exceeded ; but it must be said, 
in justification of M. Leblanc, that on the other side of the 
discussion he has frequently been replied to in too strong 
terms. If I recall at this time these old souvenirs which had 
long been effaced from the memory of M. Leblanc, it is only 
to afford me an opportunity of proclaiming how much those 
who contended with him mistook his character and inten- 
tions. 
“ It was not only by the establishment of a periodical 
journal, which he carried on for more than thirty years with 
all his energy, that M. Leblanc has contributed to the diffu- 
sion of professional knowledge ; we are indebted to his un- 
flinching initiative for the institution of the Central Society 
of Veterinary Medicine ; and though his name is not in- 
scribed among those of its founders, it was, nevertheless, 
owing to him that the society was constituted. It was he 
