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seemed to be satisfied with the results which have thus far fol¬ 
lowed its employment in his hands. There is, however, some¬ 
thing in this act of Dr. Meyer’s which none of us should fail to 
remember, appreciate and imitate. To promote and advance the 
interests of our profession there is something demanded beyond 
the mere careful and correct performance of our professional 
duties, and the course of Dr. Meyer in presenting this report of 
his experiments with antifebrine is one that should be studied 
and imitated by those of our confreres who, unlike him, may be 
inclined to allow a nihilistic spirit to interfere with the better ob 
servance of the higher professional ethics. The pages of the 
Review are never closed to any whose desire it may be to follow 
Dr. Meyer in the path of professional duty which he has thus in¬ 
dicated, in giving without reserve the results of his experience 
for the benefit of the profession at large, and consequently the 
general good. It is the true method of elevating and advancing 
the higher law of the healing art. 
Antirabic Inoculation of Dogs. —Our September number 
contained a reference to the prophylaxy of rabies in herbivorous 
animals, and the expression of our hopes that the ready mode of 
treatment of Professor Gal tier would soon find extensive applica¬ 
tion at the hands of veterinarians. At the same time we could 
not but regret that carnivorous animals, and dogs principally, 
could not be subjected to the same treatment, and that the Pas¬ 
teur method, with its difficulties of proper serial preparations, 
was the only one to which bitten dogs could be submitted, and 
that this treatment was so far the only positive one by which im¬ 
munity could be secured. 
The difficulties that are encountered in the preparation of the 
series of spinal cords, as conducted by Pasteur, the easy possibil¬ 
ity of errors, and the uncertainties offered by the whole process 
could not have escaped the attention of those who have labored 
assiduously for years on the same line of research, and they must 
have felt keenly stimulated by the competition which they have 
encountered from the many laudably ambitious aspirants who 
have sought success and honor in a field of achievement so glori¬ 
ous and philanthropic. 
