American Veterinary Review. 
JANUARY, 1896. 
EDITORIAL. 
The Review for 1896.—The Review extends the com¬ 
pliments of the season to its readers throughout the country, 
and wishes them prosperity for the New Year just entering 
upon. She intends to use her utmost resources to be even 
more worthy of their patronage and affection than she has 
ever been in her long history. Never since its inception was 
the Review enjoying more of the confidence of the veterin¬ 
ary public than she is to-day. Our advertising pages are 
being used to their full capacity by those who wish to reach 
the large constituency of veterinarians who constitute her 
readers. The publisher takes pride in these evidences of 
prosperity in view of recent events, and to make The Review 
worthy of her success has made extensive arrangements to 
enlarge her usefulness. During the year just opening, eveiy 
department will be enlivened by contributions from the more 
reliable sources. Original articles upon veterinary science in 
its different fields and from the pens of active workers will be 
abundantly supplied. Articles of a practical nature—so help¬ 
ful to the busy physician in his combat with every-day 
disease—will be from first hands, while the journals of other 
lands will be carefully searched for items of value and inteiest 
to our readers. Veterinary society proceedings, and especially 
the papers of value that are presented, will find a welcome 
place in our pages. News items of importance to the profes¬ 
sion at large will be condensed and printed, but we have no 
room for “ chit-chat” of no earthly benefit nor inteiest except 
