American Veterinary Review, 
FEBRUARY, 1888. 
EDITORIAL 
Professional Ethics in Our Colleges. —The subject opened by the Medi¬ 
cal Record —the need for such education is evident more in veterinary than in 
human medical colleges—its importance to the young veterinary graduate—advice 
that he needs—how will he enter into professional life ?—it is more by didactic 
advice than* by reading that deontology can be learned—if properly carried out, 
H will do away with many of the unprofessional acts and quackeries of all kinds 
that the recent graduate, and even the old practitioner, is liable to fall into—it 
will be a means of elevating the profession. Dr. Gadsden on Pleuro-Pneumonia. 
—The manner in which he claims to have been treated at the Consolidated Cattle 
Growers’ Association—the paper he had prepared, ignored—his opinion as to the 
contagiosity of the disease sustained by some English authorities—an important 
observation—the effect it may have in the process of stamping the disease out of 
this country. American Veterinary Review Prize. —Our disappointed enthu¬ 
siasm about the selection of the committee—well declined and warmly accepted 
—the committee is carefully selected and nominated, anyhow—our thanks to the 
gentlemen who accepted it—we are now ready to receive the papers—may many 
come. Patho-Biologioal Laboratory in Nebraska. —A good offer from Prof. 
F. S. Billings—it is already accepted and taken advantage of by veterinarians. 
Editorial Notices. 
Professional Ethics in our Colleges. —Our respected con¬ 
temporary, the Medical Record , in some recent editorial remarks, 
discusses the existing need in our medical colleges of better teach¬ 
ings in respect to medical ethics. It is not so much of instruction 
in right conduct, as regards the ordinary relations of life, such as 
the need of honesty, purity, generosity and the other major vir¬ 
tues, that he speaks, but of the rules and observances which con¬ 
stitute technical ethics, established courtesies and the minor mor¬ 
als, manners and conducts of professional life. 
