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REPORTS OF CASES. 
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ence, for they are not like some I know of, they are truth¬ 
fully related. 
The report of odd and fatal cases accompanied with ac¬ 
counts of post-mortem lesions can not help be of inestimable 
value to busy and conscientious practitioners. 
For myself, I am perfectly willing and glad to wade 
through long, vague articles about antitoxins, tables of tem¬ 
peratures, emulsionized gelosis in bouillon, c.c.s., immunity 
of inoculated rabbits and mice, sterilization, streptococci, an¬ 
atomy of parasites, etc. But, after all, one cannot help but 
think how little such news helps a practitioner practically. 
The advantages of a higher education no sensible man de¬ 
nies, and I have no fault to find with it, but why can we not 
have more practical articles, reports of cases and points in 
practice than we have hair-splitting articles filling up our 
journals most of the time. Still let us gladly welcome any 
and all original research. 
In the last ten years, not counting the present volume, 
the American Veterinary Review, the leading veterinary 
journal of America, has printed about three hundred cases re¬ 
ported by subscribers and four hundred and fifty original 
articles, many of which were translated productions. 
Should this proportion continue to obtain? Who is to 
blame? Surely not the able editor. Looking over back 
numbers of the Review, it is seen sometimes only one little 
case occupying about half a page. 
If it had not been for the adamantine determination and 
tireless energy of Prof. Liautard, who in the face of tardily 
paid subscriptions and needy encouragement, we could not 
have with us the ideal American Veterinary Review of 
to-day. At the same time credit is due to his colaborators. 
It is said experience is the greatest teacher of all. Let us 
have some of it. 
“The stream of life bears with it now all the errors and failures of the past, 
the wreckage of all the philosophies, the fragments of all the civilizations, the wis¬ 
dom of all the abandoned ethical systems, the debris of all institutions, and the pen¬ 
alties of all mistakes.”— Sumner. 
