EDITORIAL. 
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fensor of the bill. He may have received assistance here and 
there, but we know it is he who, leaving aside all personal inter¬ 
est, has neglected not one stone to be turned, not one occasion 
to defend the bill and we believe that had it not been for him we 
could not congratulate ourselves as we do. Dr. O'Shea deserves 
well of the profession. 
Sixth International Congress of Veterinary Medi¬ 
cine.— We can only give notice, for the present, of this future 
event and intend to call the attention of our readers to it in 
our next issue. 
Let us say only that the programme arranged is most com¬ 
plete and cannot fail to attract to Berne a large number of Vet¬ 
erinarians. 
The congress will hold its meetings from the 16th to the 21st 
of September. 
Maine Appreciation of Veterinary Medicine.— 
Among our sundry news we printed some time ago an item 
from a I ortland paper on what any man, we thought, would 
consider an idiotic cruelty,—it seems that we had a wrong 
impression of what cruelty is,—and that after all years of study 
have not made us any wiser. Colics, of what nature they may 
be, what might cause them, can now by order of a Portland 
court be treated by what we, wrongly or rightly, may consider 
the most absurd, if not at heart, cruel treatment, the pouring of 
some liniment in the patient’s ear. If this is done, the fluid will 
flow from the ear to the seat of disease and.it is 
believed by a few that veterinary medicine has progressed in the 
last twenty-five years. 
Will not our friend, Dr. G. Bailey, tell us if the report which 
he has sent us, and which we reprint, is not a joke, and if legis¬ 
lative action for the practice of veterinary medicine in Maine is 
not at an early date going to prevent the return of such a dis¬ 
graceful act and approval from an intelligent jury ? 
