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M. ARLOING. 
at sea in the way of using their forces, and as much may be 
said of professors; some of them are eminent for their learning, 
but fail in the manner of imparting knowledge. 
What the veterinary profession wants is a better class of 
men, and the remedy lies with the colleges by not admitting 
men to enter without passing a matriculation examination. 
This year an Act has been passed by the New York Legisla¬ 
ture organizing a preliminary education for medical students. 
At the time the bill was presented I was asked the propriety 
of having the veterinary profession represented. The people 
of the State of New York have not sufficient interest and faith 
in veterinary colleges to secure a State appropriation, and it 
has become necessary to apply the fee of the students for the 
salaries of the professors, whieh is a detriment to their ad¬ 
vancement. 
An editorial article in the Medical Record a short time ago 
stated that the didactic lecture has suffered a great decline in 
relative importance, as compared with other methods of im¬ 
parting professional knowledge, and prophesies a still further 
decline in the near future, and that it will gradually give way 
to a judicious and well ordered system of recitations. A 
lesson will be assigned in a text book and recited, and the 
medical instructors will assume the functions of the regular 
teacher of science, which is now the method in the medical 
departments of a free university. 
TUBERCULOSIS. 
By M. Akloing, Director of the Lyons Veterinary College. 
(Continued from page 399.) 
Let us add a word still to these considerations, to say that 
the study of bovine tuberculosis will perhaps reveal some 
facts which will present this malady under a still more for¬ 
midable light. 
M. Toussaint, some years since, pointed out the virulence 
of the blood in a case of bovine tuberculosis and in one of 
human phthisis. M. Courmont, assistant to the Faculty of 
Medicine of Lyons, has found in tubercles of the pleura of an 
ox a microbe which seems to have taken the place of Koch’s 
