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EDITORIAL. 
medical ethics, to which reference was not long since made, 
dermatology is rather than otherwise adjudged to be a fit subject 
for instruction alone. 
Aside from this it may be asked what of its literature; where 
(with the exception of what may be found in the works of 
French and German writers) can the English reading veterinary 
dermatologist find help and information ? Though this is an 
important subject, it is in fact one concerning which the pupil 
will too often look in vain for information to his instructors, 
upon whose curriculum it has not yet been accorded a place. (We 
are happy to be able to say that we are not of the number who 
overlook its importance and ignore it in teaching.) It is high 
time for veterinarians to remember that in this branch of his sci¬ 
entific specialty there is something more to learn than the old 
sollenders and mallanders, and the scratches and mud fever, and 
that the therapeuty of the skin is not limited to the use of the 
blue wash, the tar and sulphur, or the lard and gunpowder 
applications. 
If Megnin of France, and others have sought in their writings 
to invest the science of veterinary dermatology with somewhat of 
the importance and interest naturally belonging to it, this simpli¬ 
fied translation of Director Muller will undoubtedly receive a 
proper welcome from our English-reading veterinary scientists, 
and in any case it cannot fail to supply a real want in our veter¬ 
inary literature. 
Diagnosis in doubtful cases of Glanders. —There are prob¬ 
ably no contagious diseases of animals which, under certain cir¬ 
cumstances, presents greater difficulties of diagnosis than those of 
a glanderous type. The signs of lesion are at times so obscure, 
and the positive symptoms of so doubtful a character (without 
referring to the cases in which, though present, it is under a 
latent form, and baffles the closest observation), that very often 
the practitioner is disposed to despair of reaching a satisfactory 
conclusion, until he has placed his patient in a condition of isola¬ 
tion, and subjected him to a long course of observation and ex¬ 
periment. This of course subjects the owners of suspected ani¬ 
mals to serious loss and inconvenience, with the superadded pos- 
