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EDITORIAL. 
And since then the “ cure Bacelli” is the question of the day. 
It has been used by many veterinarians, and our worthy contem¬ 
poraries, La Clinica Veterinarian II Nuovo Ercolani and Le 
Giornale della Reale Societa ed Academia Veterinarian have 
given the hospitality of their pages to the many articles written 
upon the subject. 
The results are of so much importance that the Italian Sec¬ 
retary of Agriculture has decided to apply it at the expense of 
the State in some special districts. 
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Prof. Crookshank’s Sound Advice. —It is customary in 
England for one of the professors to deliver an opening address 
in the various veterinary schools. In America the same custom 
exists also ; at least, in some, if not in all. But in England 
those addresses are usually published ; in America they are not 
. * in recent years, at any rate. Why ? 
There are often interesting points to notice in those remarks ; 
they do not always relate to dry subjects, or to 'scientific allu¬ 
sions ; but for many they serve as a means of introduction of 
each professor to his entering class and contain sound advice to 
the new students. 
The last opening address of the Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons of London by Professor Crookshank was a very inter¬ 
esting one, and one of the passages, where he speaks of the 
grand question of education, preliminary and higher, and in 
relation to the one, while dwelling upon the advantages that 
would be derived by the student of possessing knowledge of 
foreign languages,, especially French and German, he says : “I 
do not require to be told that the veterinary surgeon has to 
think first of making a living. I am quite aware of that fact; 
but it must be remembered that traveling on the Continent is 
quite a different matter from what it was twenty years ago. 
The expenses have been reduced to such an extent by coopera¬ 
tion that an opportunity for foreign travel is placed almost 
within the reach of all. I would not even leave out the stu¬ 
dent ; I should like to see parents encouraging the idea of ‘ stu- 
