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boards of faculty—student to-day, professor to-morrow? 
More schools may be wanted ; they are in fact needed, but 
more important elements are also needed. Are we at pres¬ 
ent prepared to furnish them? Are they in existence? If 
so where shall we find them, and in whose personality are 
they embodied? These are important questions to answer. 
To Our Readers. —The increased size of the Review for 
last month, and of the present issue, furnish visible evidence 
of our desire to fully perforin our duty to our readers, and 
to appreciate practically the kindness of our correspondents. 
1 his change is intended for a permanence, and it is our de- 
sign, moreover, to increase at an early day the number of 
our pages in order to enlarge our facilities by making room 
for all the favors of our correspondents. For the present, 
however, we must again offer the old excuse, lack of space, 
if some of the communications we have received do not turn 
up in the present number. They will appear in our next. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
PARTURIENT APOPLEXY. 
By Dr. J. E Brown, V.S., Oskaloosa, Iowa. 
(A Paper read before the Iowa State Veterinary Medical Association.) 
As my experience with this disease has been a little less 
satisfactory than with any other; as it is one on which emi¬ 
nent practitioners squarely antagonize each other ; as it is one 
of the many diseases of which the veterinary profession posi¬ 
tively knows but little of its true etiology, pathology or suc¬ 
cessful therapeutics; and as the average man usually writes 
best on the subject he knows the least about, I thought it well 
for me, on this occasion, to tackle parturient apoplexy. 
I have studied the text books on this subject, and packed 
m y “ grip ” accordingly, until I thought I was equipped both 
in knowledge, medical agents and surgical outfit to success- 
iully combat any case of parturient apoplexy, but, somehow 
on my return from this sort of professional visits, ! generally 
