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EDITORIAL. 
many questions of leading interest by the elite ol the profes¬ 
sion, and twice gone over, can hardly fail to be followed by 
results of great interest and value to the cause of medical 
science at large, and that a full report of its proceedings will 
be likely to be widely in demand. 
Since the date of the first congress, now several years ago, 
many subjects, both collaterally and directly related to the 
main topic, have engaged the public mind, and have received 
due investigation, including the theory and practice of the 
Koch system. And with reference to this alone, and the im¬ 
portant question of its satisfactory success, or partial failure, 
and its true and proved position in scientific and practical es¬ 
timation, the convocation of the new congress would be justi¬ 
fied, as well as the expectation of obtaining new and important 
light upon a subject of literally vital interest, upon many 
points of inquiry which are still waiting solution. 
Veterinarians especially will, no doubt, take great interest 
in the coming discussions, and we hope to be able to lay before 
our readers at an early day a complete and satisfactory re¬ 
view of the congressional labors. 
It is to be hoped that some of our associations may in some 
of their meetings also take hold of this subject. Tuberculosis 
is rather prevalent than otherwise on this continent and we 
cannot afford to ignore the efforts that are in progress among 
our transatlantic brethren to discover some of the things still 
in doubt in relation to the matter in hand. 
New York State Veterinary Medical Society.— 
Veterinarians throughout the country must have felt sur¬ 
prised at the fact that the Excelsior State has for many years 
been the only one in the Union which considered itself able to 
omit from its catalogue of institutions of civilization and 
refinement such a body as a State Veterinary Association, 
representing the interests of the profession in the common¬ 
wealth at large. 
There were, it is true, some local societies, and somewhere 
good work was sometimes done; but, with these excep¬ 
tions, since the demise of the old New York State Veterinary 
Society, which occurred some six or seven years ago, there 
