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be purified. It has been mooted that an attempt will be made to 
repeal or amend the law creating this Board, and the Review 
sounds the alarm to all members of the profession in the Em¬ 
pire State, that they may oppose such a disaster by every means 
in their power, and crush it so badly that no man nor body of 
men will ever again have the effrontery to attack such sover¬ 
eign laws that have been demanded, worked for, and secured by 
the unanimous and united profession of veterinary medicine in 
New York State. 
To be forewarned, is to be forearmed ! 
Bovine Diphtheria. — Has Dr. Winchester discovered 
diphtheria in cattle ? In a paper read before the United States 
Veterinary Medical Association he describes a number of cases 
whose clinical history and post-mortem lesions would lead one 
to suspect it ; but he has gone further, and, not relying upon 
his own familiarity with the microscope, has obtained the opin¬ 
ion of such high authority as Prof. Harold C. Ernst, of the 
Bacteriological Department of the Harvard School of Medicine, 
who says the bacilli obtained from the membrane of the throat 
of the cattle described by Dr. Winchester greatly resemble and 
he thinks they are identical with the Klebs-Eoffler bacillus. 
The paper, which will be found in a very complete form else¬ 
where in the Review, is, therefore, a most valuable contribution 
to the study of comparative pathology, and the Doctor is enti¬ 
tled to a great many thanks for his intelligent and painstaking 
investigation of the subject. We have no doubt but that his 
recognition of the disease will be followed by many observations 
of a kindred nature from others, and in a short time we will 
have another contagious disease added to our already long list 
affecting the members of the bovine family. 
Veterinarians residing in counties adjacent to New York 
County are welcome to be present at the next meeting of the 
Veterinary Medical Association of New York County. They 
should join the society. 
