THE PRESENT NUMBER. 
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But such is the way in which our continental brethren too 
frequently conduct their controversies. There are two French 
veterinary periodicals—the “ Recueil,” and the “ Journal.” 
They are edited by the very elite of the French school, and 
they have both essentially contributed to the progress of veteri¬ 
nary science in France; but they verify the old adage, and 
Messrs, of the “ Recueil,” and the “Journal,” seem to hate each 
other with perfect hatred, and suffer no opportunity to escape of ex¬ 
posing and annoying each other. Each gives an analysis of the 
essays contained in some preceding number of the other. Were 
this fairly conducted, we should somewhat object to it: it would 
be a kind of literary piracy and robbery; it could proceed from 
no other motive than the desire to limit each other’s sale; and 
in this they would both succeed to a degree which we wonder 
they are not wise enough to foresee. But the analysis is not 
fairly conducted. Every little error in the communications to 
each is exposed, magnified, misrepresented, and condemned as 
an unpardonable literary blunder and falsehood; and, frequently, 
the respective editors proceed to personal attacks on each other, 
even more uncalled for, and more censurable than those of 
M. Hamont on M. Hurtrel d’Arboval. 
Are they not aware to what degree they must lower themselves 
in the estimation of their readers and the public, when they can 
thus sacrifice good feeling, and, sometimes, literary honesty ? 
Can they wonder, if it is the general remark that their journals 
are not so instructive as they used to be ? Who will contribute 
to either journal, when he knows that he is offering himself to 
the other a sacrifice on the altar of jealousy and malice? Can 
they not see how fatally they are sacrificing the interests of sci¬ 
ence ? In the ‘ ‘ Recueil” for July was a most unwarrantable attack 
on M. Dupuy. In that for August there is not any “ Analyse.” 
The analysis in the “Journal” for that month was confined to a 
brief detail of the principal matter; that in the July number 
contained nothing offensive, but a sly sneer at M. Gaulet. May 
we hope that this is the commencement of a better sera ? That 
journal will deserve the thanks of the public, and of the friends 
of veterinary science, which first ceases to disgrace its pages 
with these new and abominable analyses. ° & 
Mr. Percivall’s paper on “ Scarlatina in Horses” is a new con¬ 
tribution to science. The disease is occasionally met with in 
practice, but has never before been described. 
The account of the use of the chloride of lime in fistulous wi¬ 
thers in a cow, and in poll-evil in a mare, by Mr. Holford, is 
valuable, as confirmatory of a new and most successful system of 
practice. With a seton, or setons, properly inserted, and the 
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