EDITORIAL. 
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to substantiate his statement by a large experimentation, and no 
doubt make a new edition of Pouilly Lefort experiments by Fas- 
teur, when his discovery of the vaccine for anthrax was mistrusted 
and denied. 
Vaccination in Anthrax. —Speaking of this experiment, and 
referring to the advantages following the employment of vac¬ 
cination against anthrax, Professor Mocard, in his chronic of the 
Recueil deMedecine Veterincdre , publishes a statistical table of the 
vaccinations practiced since 1881, both in France and in foreign 
countries, with the vaccine prepared at the Pasteur laboratory. 
The animals thus treated were, by his showing: 
Sheep. Cattle. Horses. 
1881 . 74,551 7,231 242 
1882 . 306,870 41,823 2,025 
1883 . 335,330 32,230 1,346 
1884 . 361,198 40,500 384 
1885 . 401,625 41,982 1,298 
1886.,. 367,208 47,229 47,229 
The result, ascertained and stated by competent authority in 
respect to more than one-half of the animals which had been 
treated, was a reduction of mortality in sheep from 8 to 10 per 
cent, before to less than 1 per cent, after vaccination, and in cattle 
from 5 per cent, to one-half of 1 per cent. The force of these 
irresistible facts ought to be more than sufficient to carry a con¬ 
viction to every mind of the preventive value of the application 
of the plan of inocculation in bacteridian anthrax. The evidence 
already obtained in cases of the bacterian form of the disease is 
quite as strong. Will our veterinarians and our breeders ever 
learn the wisdom of putting it into practice in the United States? 
Dr. Salmon on Pleuro-Pneumonia. —We copy in this num¬ 
ber a letter from Dr. Salmon, the accomplished chief of the 
Bureau of Animal Industry, in relation to the progress of the 
work undertaken for the suppression of pleuro-pneumonia in the 
United States. The appeal of Dr. S. is a proper one, and the 
reasons he urges in Its support are as forcibly stated as they are 
pertinent to the occasion. It is quite true that much has been 
done, but it is equally true that much still remains to be done. 
