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nance (such as Johns Hopkins, Standiford, Georgetown, and Mc¬ 
Gill Universities). 
When you enshrine State control and franchise around an 
institution, you bring it within the category of political influence, 
and it adds an additional factor by which the politician may 
further influence his own personal aims. 
The veterinary profession at large, also, should suppress by 
their united efforts an alarmist who raves without any facts, as 
a basis for his statements. „ 
It may be evident to some, perhaps all, that he desires to form 
a trust upon the whole professional future of veterinary surgery, 
and he has taken this method of apparent respectability to limit 
the admissions to its rank. As a result of his effort and the re¬ 
form work he has undertaken, we fear we will lose him prema¬ 
turely as a consequence of general paresis, the premonitory symp¬ 
toms of exaggerated ideas having already appeared. 
The address of Professor Law, I think, demands the strongest 
and most emphatic denunciation of every veterinary college in 
America. Chas. M. Emmons, M.D., Ph.D., 
Professor Mental Diseases Howard University . Professor 
Physiology and Histology United States College of Veterinary Surgeons. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
Text-Book of Veterinary Medicine. By James Law, F. R. C. V. S., Director of 
the New York State Veterinary College, Ithaca. Vol. I. 
This is the first part of a text-book which, to use the words 
of the author, he is preparing for the use of his students. Vol. 
II. is now in preparation, and will in turn be followed by oth¬ 
ers, until the field has been fairly covered. In his preface, after 
making allusions to the well-deserved success of the Farmer's 
Veterinary Adviser , the author says that he aimed to produce a 
work which will meet the needs of the American student and 
practitioner, and with this object in view, the “ Text-Book of 
Veterinary Medicine ” is presented. After a few pages on general 
pathology, the subject of the diseases of the respiratory appara¬ 
tus occupies the principal portion of the book, which is com¬ 
pleted by those of circulation. The work is published by the 
author, and is well bound and of neat appearance. 
Proceedings of the United States Veterinary Medical Association. Session 
of 1896. Edited by the Publication Committee, W. L. Williams, V. S., Chairman. 
We have received the above-named volume and tender our 
compliments to the Committee on Publication of the associa- 
