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lation as an aid to medical education. In these remarks of our 
worthy contemporary, and in Ins recapitulation of the various 
ways in which legislation may prove effective for good, we notice 
what we feel justified in calling a very reprehensible omission or 
intentional ignoring of the very important specialty of veterinary 
medicine, a branch of the science which has made such excep¬ 
tional progress in the last few years. If legislation is necessary 
and helpful when designed to aid physicians, dentists, pharma¬ 
cists or even accoucheurs, certainly no good reason can be alleged 
for conniving at the ignorance of the veterinarian, by leaving 
him unaided and excluded. So far from this, and notwithstand¬ 
ing the advances made in late years in veterinary schools, and 
their comparative excellence, they are far from being above 
needed improvements and regulations. We cannot suppose that 
Mr. Purrington omitted the veterinary profession from his paper 
because he considered it unworthy of the connection which we 
claim for it. We suppose rather that he was laboring under such 
misinformation as has led him to the erroneous supposition that 
our veterinary schools are all that they ought to be, and are above 
the need of help—a great mistake indeed. Veterinarians ought 
not to remain ignorant of such movements as that which may be 
now inaugurated in accordance with Mr. Purrington’s paper ; and 
through him and the medical press they should appeal for such an 
equality of treatment for their specialty as should secure for it 
such legislative sanction and control as are enjoyed by the physi¬ 
cian, the dentist or the pharmacist. 
Antifebrine or Acetanilid.— We print on another page a 
paper which was read by our friend and correspondent, Dr. J. C. 
Meyer, Sr., of Cincinnati, at the late meeting of the Ohio State 
Veterinary Medical Association, which from the importance of 
the subject and the ability of its treatment must have been lis¬ 
tened to with much interest by the members of the Association 
and have elicited much profitable discussion. The subject is the 
effects of antifebrine, a comparatively new addition to therapeu¬ 
tics, and one which in the hands of the veterinarian cannot fail to 
prove a useful and valuable curative agent. 
Dr. Meyer related his own experience with the new drug, and 
