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EDITORIAL 
brethren from abroad in a general International Veterinary Con¬ 
gress ? Such a question is naturally suggested by reading the re¬ 
port of the proceedings of the Ninth International Medical Con¬ 
gress, where the physicians of both worlds, comprising, with 
others, delegates from America, Great Britain, France, Germany, 
Italy and Russia, came together in the city of Washington, and 
for an entire week discussed in scientific papers and debates the 
great and interesting matters pertaining to their calling. Aside 
from this, and quite as important an effect of the meeting, may be 
considered the goodly feeling and friendly sympathy established 
between the practitioners in human medicine of all the leading 
nationalities of the world, engendered by the hearty and magni¬ 
ficent hospitality they have received from their American 
brethren, following the cordial welcome extended to them by the 
President of the United States in their behalf. 
This is an inquiry not a little difficult to answer. Yet Veter¬ 
inary Congresses have been held, and though heretofore they have 
met only in the cities of Europe, there is no absolute reason why 
the cities of the new world should be entirely precluded in the se¬ 
lection for some future occasion, if not for the Congress which 
assembles in Paris in 1889. There is, however, one indispensable 
preliminary condition to be fulfilled before we can expect to in¬ 
duce the veterinarians of Europe to come to America, and this 
condition precedent devolves on us to perform—it is that we first 
go to Europe. At the meeting in Brussels America was repre¬ 
sented by barely three veterinarians ; the next meeting ought to 
be attended by a much larger representation. Let every State 
Veterinary Association, and every veterinary school on the con¬ 
tinent, and the general Associations of the United States, appoint 
delegates, and let these, after first organizing themselves, go to 
Europe in a body in 1SS9, to represent the American veterinarian 
of to-day. We may then reasonably expect the friendly consid¬ 
eration, at least, of a proposition to make the city of Washington 
the place for convening the next Veterinary Congress. 
An important fact which interests us as veterinarians in con¬ 
nection with the late International Medical Congress, is the recog¬ 
nition which it extended to the veterinary profession-—-an occur- 
