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remain idle now, while the subject of treatment—the great prac¬ 
tical question—both prophylactic and sanitary, still evades solu¬ 
tion. Let us hope and predict that the credit of inaugurating a 
successful theory and piactice of treatment will soon fall to 
the credit of American discovery and demonstration. 
Mediate Contagion in Pleuro-Pneumonia. —We greatly 
regret the delay which has attended the publication of this inter¬ 
esting and important paper, which should have been printed in 
our April number, and which, moreover, should have been accom¬ 
panied by the report of the meeting of the United States Veter¬ 
inary Medical Association, at which it was read. But if the fail¬ 
ure to print it at that time involves no culpability on our part, 
neither is it due to any fault of ours that we have not yet pub¬ 
lished an authentic report of the proceedings of the meeting in 
question, since it has not yet reached our hands from the Secre¬ 
tary’s office. No one regrets this omission more than ourselves. 
Many of our readers are members of the Association, and it was 
amidst fostering influences found in that body that the Review 
found its inception and began its existence. It is difficult, there¬ 
fore, to realize the fact or comprehend the reason, if any there 
* be, for the total ignoring, on the part of the Secretary of that 
body, of our perfect readiness to give the ordinary publicity to 
the transactions of the Association. We have endeavored to 
repair this omission, and we feel assured that our readers will 
read Dr. Salmon’s paper with the interest it deserves. 
In this paper and the letter by Professor Law,* Dr. Gadsden 
will be apt to encounter not a little material for reflection. 
Veterinary Dermatology. —In our April number we began 
the publication of a translation by Dr. W. Gottheil, of a paper 
on Diseases of the Skin of the Domesticated Animals, by Dr. G. 
Muller, of Berlin. We are quite sure that our readers will recog¬ 
nize in this treatise a work of importance and value, and appre¬ 
ciate the publication accordingly. The subject of dermatology is 
one which has been comparatively an ignored department of vet¬ 
erinary education. In fact, we know of no veterinary colleges 
which include this among their regular subjects of study. Like 
* See April Review. 
