VETERINARY EXHIBITS AT THE WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXHIBITION. 
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would be incomplete without mention of a series of animal 
pathology paintings exhibited in the French building by vete¬ 
rinarian E. Pion. These paintings were ten in number and 
exceedingly well executed, both in an artistic and scientific 
sense. Among them we note glanders affecting larynx of 
horse, depicting very faithfully, in well-chosen colors, the 
characteristic glanders ulcers affecting the laryngeal mucous 
membrane; pathological lesions of bovine contagious pleuro- 
pneumonia, bovine tuberculosis (lung), intestinal ulceration 
pneumo-enteritis, pneumo-enteritis of swine with tuberculosis, 
muscular tuberculosis of ox, actinomycosis bovis with odontoma 
of lower jaw, and sarcoptic scab of sheep, all of which were 
depicted with great fidelity, recording in the most vivid manner 
possible, lesions which are promptly lost or at least seriously 
deteriorated in value as soon as their preservation as tissues is 
attempted. 
This exhibit brings up the thought that more of us should be 
able to record our observations in the most intelligible manner 
possible, as these records become of value as they accumulate. 
We can not all paint as has Dr. Pion, and unfortunately we can 
not even make a passable pencil sketch of what we at times see, 
although such sketches might prove invaluable to us and our 
profession were they only preserved. A sufficient knowledge 
of drawing to enable veterinarians to faithfully depict some of 
their rare or very interesting cases would certainly prove of 
very great pleasure and utility. 
Still we have yet another method of recording our observa¬ 
tions—with the pen—and even this method is apparently beyond 
the reach of the vast majority of our so-called veterinarians. 
The archives of our profession, be they in paint, plaster, 
pencil or pen, constitute the essence of our body, the enduring, 
permanent, tangible portion. 
The exhibit as a whole was not highly eulogistic of our 
profession in America, and we were perhaps fortunate that 
foreign nations did not enter very fully into this line of exhibi¬ 
tion ; else we might have fared much worse by comparisons. 
