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EDITORIAL. 
scientific worker or laboratory man, and just as welcome because 
just as valuable to the laboratory man as to the practitioner. Yes, 
what all its preceding volumes have been for nigh forty years, 
except that it is greater and better in all respects than it has ever 
been. That is but natural; its resources for being better and 
greater have developed; the profession (of which it is a contigu¬ 
ous part) is bigger and greater than ever in its history, and the 
profession makes and supports the organ, through, which it dis¬ 
seminates its thoughts and ideas, and through which it builds up 
its science. As a tangible comparison, both of the Review and 
its co-operators, it may be said that in the last volume of but six 
numbers, 832 pages were required in which to publish their con¬ 
tributions, as compared with a thousand to twelve hundred pages 
for a voluQie of twelve numbers but a few years ago. And the 
quality or character of the literature has, of necessity, advanced 
as the science whose history it is recording has advanced. And 
yet there is not one article that has been published that is not of 
value alike to the practitioner and scientific investigator who is 
devoting his life to the unraveling of problems and the elucida¬ 
tion of perplexing questions, that they may be applied to every¬ 
day use by the practitioner. And does not the practitioner, on 
the other hand, furnish the material, the need and the impetus 
necessary to the scientific investigator, that he may have the in¬ 
spiration to work? Such, most certainly, is the case. And it is 
because these two sides of veterinarv science meet on eciual 
j. 
ground in the American Veterinary Review that it has 
always been the successful veterinary magazine that it is; it is 
both scientific and practical. Perhaps we should say practical and 
scientific, because we must admit that the practical side predom¬ 
inates. We notice, for example, in glancing over the last vol¬ 
ume, fifty-three original articles and one hundred and eighty re¬ 
ports of cases (from every part of the world) met in actual, 
every-day practice—diagnoses, treatments, results, post mortems ; 
(this is exclusive of editorials, correspondence, society meetings, 
etc.)—and, besides, every one of the original articles treat di¬ 
rectly on subjects of interest to the practitioner. Some treat on 
