EDITORIAL. 
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more technical questions than others; for example, the more mod¬ 
ern laboratory tests for the diagnosis of glanders, etc., that the 
practitioner is not in a position to apply himself, but he desires 
to understand them, and to be in a position to explain them intel¬ 
ligently to his clients. Therefore, he welcomes an article of that 
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order, presenting the matter carefully worked out for him, in his 
veterinary magazine, that he may read it in his leisure moments 
until he has grasped its principles. Now suppose the general 
practitioner has got a little the best of it in the character of the 
articles, that does not work any hardship on the scientific inves¬ 
tigator; the field work furnishes him with material upon which 
to make his investigations. What would the man in the labora¬ 
tory do if it were not for the man in the field, the practitioner, 
the diagnostician, who furnishes the laboratory the specimens and 
can intelligently explain their source? It brings us right back to 
our old stand, the Review's happy combination of the science and 
the art of veterinary medicine (practical articles and case reports 
from daily practice), the practitioner always being its first con¬ 
sideration, the end to which all its means lead. In fact, the appre¬ 
ciation expressed by so many, many practitioners of the help and 
inspiration that the Review is to them has actuated this response. 
• And so it will continue to help and inspire them; through their 
ozvn efforts in recording their experiences in its pages (which are 
ever open to them), that they may profit by the work of each 
other; through the efforts of our large list of collaborators, made 
up from among the most learned men in the profession of this 
and other countries, who are ever willing to reduce scientific mat¬ 
ters to their practical application, and through its editors, who 
are only human, and, therefore, not infallible, but who are always 
willing to sacrifice themselves, if necessary, in championing the 
cause of the profession on the side which they believe to be right. 
KEEPING THE VETERINARIAN DOWN. 
If a man has genuine abilities, he cannot be kept down. If a 
people, or a state, or a locality has genuine worth, it cannot be 
