American Veterinary Review. 
APRIL, 1912. 
EDITORIAL. 
EUROPEAN CHRONICLE. 
Paris, February 15, 1912. 
Comparative Pathology—Its Importance. —Those who 
follow the progress that is being made in medical sciences have 
already long ago realized the fact that in our days pathology can 
no longer be a separate and divided part of medical education, 
and that all the various pathologies pertain to one essential, 
mothers of the others, viz.: Comparative Pathology. Indeed, 
we have to-day societies of that name; we have journals; there 
is going to be an International Congress of Comparative Pathol¬ 
ogy, and, besides that, we have seen a chair of professor of ex¬ 
perimental and comparative pathology created in several of the 
faculties of medicine, human as well as veterinary. 
At the opening of the course of lectures to be given at the 
Faculty of Medecine, in Paris, the eminent, learned holder of the 
chair, Professor Dr. H. Roger, has delivered a masterly lecture, 
from which I am pleased to make some extracts from the record 
published in the Revue de Pathologie Comparee: 
* * * “ This year I shall limit my remarks to our actual 
knowledge of the diseases common to men and animals, prin¬ 
cipally on those which can be transmitted between them in the 
ordinary conditions of life. 
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