EDITORIAL. 
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their instructive and entertaining monthly, semi-annual and 
annual gatherings for the discussion of papers upon scientific 
topics. Further to exchange their ideas and to develop their 
opportunities for the acquirement of information, veterinary 
journals were created, and comparatively speaking, these have 
proved successful and useful. 
All this, and more has been accomplished by veterinarians, 
and yet with all this, why is it that our branch of the science 
of healing has failed to receive, from those to whom it has a 
right to look for help, the slightest favor or encouragement ? 
Why are the doors of many of our medical schools and almost 
all of our medical societies, almost literally speaking, closed 
to-day to regular graduates of veterinary medicine? Let us 
further explain what we mean : 
A regular veterinarian graduate, recently out of school, 
desires to obtain the degree of M.D., and applies to one, a 
regular medical institution. He inquires as to the require¬ 
ments for graduation, asks if an) 7 time will be allowed to him 
for his previous (recent) studies. And in a majority of the 
schools—(and we mean here to include some of the best in 
the country) what is the answer? “We cannot allow any¬ 
thing more than the time of studv.” It is to take it or leave 
it. The graduate had studied medicine one year before en¬ 
tering the veterinary college ; he had given two or perhaps 
three years, or perhaps more, to that college ; he had studied 
faithfully under good teachers; he had mastered thoroughly 
all the general principles of medical science, but the medical 
teachers declined to recognize any and all of these facts, and 
why ? Is not this grossly unjust; does it indicate a proper ap¬ 
preciation of the work performed by the veterinary faculty ? 
Again, let the veterinarian make an application for admis¬ 
sion to a medical society on the strength of his hardly-earned 
diploma as a veterinary surgeon. How will he be received? 
Of course he can attend the meetings; he may perhaps bring 
specimens; perhaps he will be permitted to participate in the 
discussion; he will, no doubt, be treated and received as a 
gentleman-but for any of the medical privileges of the society, 
they will be perhaps courteously, but peremptorily denied 
him, Again, why? 
