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EDITORIAL. 
Is not such a state of affairs deplorable, and has not the 
time come for the medical profession to accord to her veteri¬ 
narian brethren (or are they peradventnre only cousins, if not 
some still more “distant relation ?”) the rights and privileges 
which they themselves concede to their elder relations? 
for it is a fact that when graduates of recognized medical 
schools are admitted to veterinary colleges, full allowance is 
made for the time occupied in previous studies, and their 
term correspondingly reduced. Moreover, graduates of 
medicine in good standing are admitted to membership in 
federal, state and city veterinary societies. Does it not seem 
eminently proper that here at least, there should be recipro¬ 
city ? It could not be other than mutually beneficial to both 
sciences, and it would be of advantage to all who look for 
thoroughness of education. It would contribute to the eleva¬ 
tion of veterinary as well as of human science, and would at 
the least assist in the removal of any little stigma which ma}^ 
continue to be attached to the professional and'scientific stand¬ 
ing of the veterinarian. 
The rights and immunities which we are claiming as justly 
due to veterinary surgeons in this country, have existed for 
years in Europe, and have received of late an additional recog¬ 
nition by a recent decision of the French Government, entitling 
all graduates of veterinary medicine possessing the degree of 
Bachelor of Letters or of Sciences, to special privileges in 
their admittance to the medical sehools, and in the conditions 
of graduation. 
Editorial Notice.— We have received from several cor¬ 
respondents important communications, original articles, re¬ 
ports of cases, etc. that we find impossible to publish in this 
issue. We hope that the condition of our crowded pages will 
be an acceptable apology for the present, and that by an 
increase in the number of reading pages, which we intend to 
effect in ournext volume, (April, 1891 ), we will have no more 
occasion for the further postponement of whatever communi¬ 
cations our friends and correspondents may send us; at the 
same time we assure them all of our sincere appreciation of the 
kind assistance they give us. 
