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EDITORIAL. 
method he has adopted for insuring to his students the bene¬ 
fit of what we may be allowed to call his own education in 
the modus operandi of the operation, by demonstrating the 
parts to his class and requiring them to operate on artificially 
prepared, and afterward on true cases, is thoroughly judi¬ 
cious and practical. Is not this, indeed, the only proper way 
to teach operative surgery in every case, and has it been 
adopted in any of our colleges ? 
We fear that the answer to the latter query must be in the 
negative, but the sooner such a mode of education is adopted 
the better. The day should be considered as passed, not to 
return, for young, veterinary graduates to receive their di¬ 
plomas from their alma mater without having ever performed 
the simplest operations, or witnessed any of the difficult ones. 
Tuberculine—Malleine — Pneumo-Bacxlline. — One 
of the strongest of the reasons urged in favor of the most 
thorough requisition and improvement of the faculties of ob¬ 
servation and discrimination in diagnosis on the part of the 
veterinarian is the fact that our patients are mute animals 
unable to define their sufferings by words, and that their ex¬ 
amination is therefore sometimes very difficult, and for that 
reason a correct diagnosis of their ailments must in many in¬ 
stances become a most uncertain and unsatisfying proceeding. 
While this is true of many of the internal diseases, it is 
emphatically so in respect to certain forms of contagious dis¬ 
ease m which the apparent lesions are so slight that the gen¬ 
eral organism does not seem to be affected by their presence ; 
and again, when they are so peculiarly situated as to elude 
identification, and to exist onty as matters of suspicion or sur¬ 
mise. With what satisfaction then, must the veterinarian 
recognize the value and take advantage of the means which 
of late years have been brought to his attention, and that of 
the medical world, by such discoveries as those of Koch, Hell- 
man, Kohing, Prusse and others, who have introduced the 
means of detecting phthisis, with its smallest lesions, by the 
use of tuberculine, and latent glanders with malleine. 
It is true that the use of these agents is still in a tentative 
stage, and is a matter of investigation. They must be sub- 
