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gestions such as these shall he realized, and such a course inaugu¬ 
rated, not by a long series of didactic lectures, but by good,^prac¬ 
tical, honest common-sense counsel and example, that we shall see 
the last of the pompous business cards; the engraved advertise, 
ments; the manufactured newspaper notoriety; the stealing of 
patients; the discrediting and disparaging the names of colleagues; 
the assumption of false titles and degrees; the bombastic display 
of diplomas; the pretense of transcendent skill in deceptive spe¬ 
cialties, and so on, and so on, ad nccuseum. 
These things and such as these, are to-day the opprobrium of 
our profession, (as of sundry others) and tend more or less to 
smirch the good name and soil the honorably-acquired repute 
which belongs to the upright, intelligent, conscientious, skillful and 
trustworthy gentlemanly veterinarian. 
Our remarks are desultory and hasty and might be bettered in 
the arrangement, but they will be understood. 
Dr. Gadsden on Pleuro-Pneumonia.— That the subject of 
pleuro-pneumonia has been considered, debated, discussed and re¬ 
viewed to the verge of exhaustion if not, indeed, a little beyond it 
is a fact in veterinary literature of which no veterinarian can be 
ignorant. On this continent it would seem that no assemblage of 
persons can be convened for any purpose connected with cattle- 
questions, and composed of cattle owners and breeders, where the 
smallest opening can be found for the discussion, in which it does 
not find its place ; and it makes it a large one, for dissertation and 
inquiry. It is always in order, and even if it were not so, would 
compel attention, noleris volens , if no otherwise. And it would 
be vain to attempt to disparage the interest or belittle the impor¬ 
tance of the subject. - 
At a recent meeting of the Consolidated Cattle Growers’ As¬ 
sociation, which also included a number of veterinarians, the sub¬ 
ject of pleuro-pneumonia had, of course, a place on the programme 
of the proceedings. 
The Bureau of Animal Industry was well represented by its 
chief, Dr. E. Salmon and others, and several other veterinarians 
were present, among whom was Dr. J. W. Gadsden, who for 
several years past seems to have devoted the greater part of his 
