American Veterinary Review, 
FEBRUARY, 1895. 
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EDITORIALS. 
Pleuro-Pneumonia Again.— The newspapers at the be¬ 
ginning of the year have brought us the important news that 
the veterinary press of this country can scarcely overlook. It 
is to the effect that the Belgian Government has prohibited the 
importation of live cattle from the United States, on the ground 
that pleuro-pneumonia is prevalent in this country. And in the 
presence of such a statement, the veterinary profession of 
America must feel justified to ask : Is it true ? Is it possible 
that after all the good w r ork so efficiently performed by the 
bureau of animal industry ; after the official proclamation, which 
announced the fact that this country was free from the disease ; 
after the careful watching which has been carried out at the 
quarantine stations, of importation—that notwithstanding all 
these, the profession and the public should have been deceived, 
and that the disease is yet on our shores, or has been allowed 
to re-enter the United States. 
To the proper authorities we feel that we have the right to 
apply for information—for positive assurance. It is of too great 
importance to the value of the work of the veterinarians who 
have been engaged in the stamping out of the disease, which 
we all believe they have carried out so successfully, to know 
