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EDITORIAL. 
ized upon the initiative suggestion of a veterinarian, Mr. Butel, 
by Dr. Verneuil, and was held in Paris from the 25th to the 31st 
of last month; and although, or perhaps because, it was the first 
gathering of the kind, it proved to be an occasion of great inter¬ 
est, and accomplished an apparently decided success. Many points 
of special importance and widespread general concern were ad¬ 
duced and discussed, and valuable conclusions were in many 
instances established. We hope to be able, in our next number, 
to lay before our readers some of the more important and inter¬ 
esting of the papers which were presented and considered. 
The importance of the objects contemplated and the work 
accomplished by this congress may perhaps be somewhat accu¬ 
rately estimated by a consideration of the extent of the territory 
and the number of the nationalities represented by the participat¬ 
ing members. Thus, all the faculties of medicine throughout 
France, together with numerous other of the scientific organiza¬ 
tions of that Republic, may be cited as among its constituents ; 
and with these were associated, in close co-operation, kindred 
savans from the academies of medicine of New York, and such 
diverse and distant municipalities as Turin, Bucharest, Granada, 
Madrid and Athens, with medical societies from England, Den¬ 
mark, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, and still other lands. 
And what is most notable of all—for the indication which it of¬ 
fers of the advent of an era of good feeling and practical scien¬ 
tific good sense—it was not alone the practitioners in human 
medicine who were active in engineering the working of the con¬ 
gress, but the kindred branch, the veterinary sister, was for the first 
time admitted to an equal seat and voice in the deliberations of the 
assemblage. And this is a noticeable fact, truly, albeit the occa¬ 
sion was inaugurated for the express purpose of elucidating all 
attainable truth in respect to a disease and its treatment which is 
of equal interest, and so recognized on every hand, to all the 
varied families of sufferers from its mortal ravages, whether 
amongst human, bovine or other victims. 
This was indeed, for us, the circumstance of the congress, and 
though it was only rendering due honor to the claims of veter¬ 
inary medicine, it was an event worthy of being noted in our pro- 
