EDITORIAL. 
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of the late meeting of the National Association in Buffalo in 
reference to the prosanitary character of the deliberations is 
beginning to bear fruit. The Review made no complaint that 
the great and all-important question of State medicine was re¬ 
ceiving too much of the attention of the association ; but that 
the interests of the everyday practitioner were receiving too 
little ; were being crowded out by the papers and discussions 
upon the subjects of tuberculosis, hog cholera, etc. We are, 
therefore, gratified to find in the November issue of our esteemed 
contemporary, th Journal of Comparative Medicine, an advocacy 
of the system of section work in the association, and offering its 
pages to members for the discussion of the means best suited 
to produce these ends. The Review enters heartily into the 
question, and will be glad to publish any suggestions which its 
readers may have to make in furthering this aspect of the work. 
The journals should be the forum for the free discussion of 
policies looking to the advancement of our profession, and the 
preliminary work of the convention of 1897 can be transacted 
largely through the opportunities thus afforded. 
Veterinary Homeopathy. —Elsewhere in this number of 
the Review is printed a paper read before the last meeting of 
the Pennsylvania State Veterinary Association by Dr. Jacob 
Helmer, of Scranton, and it is one worthy of careful reading by 
the members of our profession, as it is the outcome of a consid¬ 
erable amount of earnest thought and intelligent experiment 
and observation by a very bright student of scientific medicine, 
especially in the relation of science to practice. We are dis¬ 
posed to believe that the results obtained by Dr. Helmer are those 
which would naturally follow the application of that system of 
medicine upon our dumb patients. The younger members of our 
profession are prone to seek some distinctive method of practice, 
and they would gather much wisdom by a careful perusal of the 
conclusions of one who has thought much and thought well. 
Veterinary Examiners of Maryland.—W e acknowl- 
