American Veterinary Review. 
JUNE, 1901. 
All com?nunications for publication or in reference thereto should be addressed to Prof. 
Roscoe R. Bell, Seventh Ave. Union St., Borough of Brooklyn, New York City. 
EDITORIAL. 
EUROPEAN CHRONICLES. 
France Fifteen Years Behind America. —It is some¬ 
what strange how, among the best meaning ones, injustice is 
often done to others. Of course, sometimes it is done so 
•thoughtlessly and the object is so good that it is not worth 
while calling attention to the error committed and try to cor¬ 
rect it. The question of priority is among the numerous cases 
of errors thus committed. After all what does priority amount 
to? Yet there seems to exist conditions and cases where pro¬ 
test is justifiable, especially when the error is publicly sanc¬ 
tioned by high scientific authority. For instance, at a late 
meeting of the Societe Centrale de Medecine Veterinaire, where 
unfortunately I was not present, and therefore could not protest 
at the time, Mr. Cagny called the attention of those present to 
a new (?) mode of treatment of lameness by the subcutaneous 
injections of spirits of turpentine, claiming that by their use 
he had been fortunate enough to relieve shoulder lameness of 
various natures, navicular disease, and sprains of tendons. With¬ 
out entering into the consideration of the serious symptoms, 
sometimes alarming, that occur quite frequently, and with 
which most veterinarians are familiar, it may be said that there 
is much doubt as to whether the injections were the cause of 
the recovery or if it was the long rest which they impose, and 
which for many was more than sufficient to bring on a cure. 
To American veterinarians this form of therapy is not new, and 
the records that have been published in our journals tell that 
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