American Veterinary Review, 
MARCH, 1892 . 
EDITORIAL, 
Ant i-R abies Inoculations. —The progress achieved by 
scientific medicine of late years, notably in the study of the” 
natuie of contagious diseases, has, no doubt, been very great, 
not alone in respect to their treatment, but more notably in 
respect to their phylaxy. But while the results which have 
already been reached have undoubtedly had the effect of 
proving that these diseases are amenable to treatment, they 
have also proved, with a still clearer demonstration, that 
their scientific management ought principally to consist in 
the institution of the prophylactic measures which, if well 
pet fected, will rendei theories of treatment and cure of quite 
secondary importance, by preventing the development and 
maturity of incipient and possible cases in the future. 
It is, in fact, becoming a well settled doctrine that if sani- 
tai y measui es aie of essential importance in their manage¬ 
ment, the ti ue, scientific and almost certain way of keeping 
them under control and preventing their outbreak, and, in 
fact, to subdue them, consists in the application of the meas¬ 
ures recommended to us by Pasteur, Chauveau, Arloing, 
Klein, Koch, Salmon, Law and many others, by whom we 
have seen them applied in late years. It does not pertain to 
the object we have in view to recall the effects obtained in 
the management of small pox by the Jennerian vaccination, 
but if we consider the results which have been obtained by 
the inoculation of attenuated virus in some of the contagious 
