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on this occasion to obtain from the Massachusetts Veterinary 
Medical Association the manuscript of the translation of that 
most excellent work of the great German pathologist, Koch, on 
the ^Etiology of Tuberculosis, and our readers will be glad to 
know that we intend in the present and two following numbers 
of the .Review to publish the entire work. Our warm acknow¬ 
ledgments are due for the kindness of Dr. Winchester and the 
Massachusetts Association for thus enabling the Review to pre¬ 
sent to its readers the first and only English translation of the 
most complete work on this important subject. The op¬ 
portunity is one which should be fully appreciated, and of which 
we hope our friends will readily take advantage. Besides this, 
our present number will give the compte rendus which Dr. Hos¬ 
kins had kindly forwarded to us, but which failed to come into 
our hands in time for our April number. In addition to these, 
two other of the papers which were read at the March meeting 
will be found in our present issue. 
Political Guillotine on Veterinarians. —Among the 
most convincing of the evidences which tend to prove the 
diffusion of a better knowledge and higher appreciation 
of the importance which has been acquired by the cause of veteri¬ 
nary science in the past five or six years, there is, in our estima¬ 
tion, (as an observer of foreign birth), none so prominent and 
conclusive as that which offers itself in the recent changes which 
have either occurred already or are destined to be accomplished 
in the establishment of a recognized official position for members 
of the veterinary profession. It is indeed a fact, that there is at 
length au established relation between politics and veterinary 
medicine, and what can the veterinarian of to-day ask now ? Yes, 
the veterinarian has become subject to specific laws for the reg¬ 
ulation of his profession ; he has State legislation to protect his 
name and his title; State appropriations for veterinary purposes, 
with State and city appointments of official scientists to carry 
them into effect, and the civil service law has interposed and of¬ 
fered him its sanctions and precautions and means of advance¬ 
ment and of promotion. Is it then surprising that, like all other 
official appointees, he should now be exposed to the same official 
