EDITORIAL. 
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And these were my motives for writing the protest; and 
the recent journalistic misconstructions and misrepresenta¬ 
tions, born of a desire to self-lionize the writer, who, lulled 
by self-adulation into a feeling of censorship of the acts and 
utterances of the whole profession of veterinary medicine of 
America, cannot but be open to the suspicion of being ma¬ 
licious, and, as such, contemptible. And having made the 
above explanation to the profession at large, a few of whom 
may have been misled by the attacks made on me, I leave the 
whole matter [once for all), to the calm judgment of unpreju¬ 
diced minds. L. 
Antitoxin in Tetanus.— We called the attention of 
our readers, in the last issue of the Review, to the advan¬ 
tages that veterinarians could derive by the use of antitoxin 
in the treatment of tetanus, and if the results which have been 
recorded in medical journals could be obtained in veterinary, 
as it has in human medicine, it would be certain that a very 
valuable addition to our therapeuty would be obtained. 
We had called upon some of our colleagues, who, we 
understood, had used antitoxin, and, though all did not 
answer our request, we have received from Dr. Jobson and 
from Dr. Lamkin, reports of most interesting value. These 
are not only tests of the value of antitoxin, they are proofs 
of the advantages that can be obtained; they show that it 
belongs to the veterinarians not to ignore this form of treat¬ 
ment; in fact, they are but the promoters of a positive indica¬ 
tion that not only antitoxine cannot be ignored, but, on the 
contrary, ought to be used immediately—from the first indi¬ 
cation of the disease, at the first symptoms. In point of fact, 
this is the opinion of Prof. E. Nocard, who, we believe, prin¬ 
cipally objects to consider antitoxin as curative in general 
practice, because it is generally too late when the veterinarian 
is called, the organism being so entirely saturated with the 
bacilli of the disease that no effect can be looked for from the 
antitoxin itself. 
In relation to this subject of the treatment of tetanus with 
sero-therapy, we will publish later the results which were 
