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EDITORIAL. 
remark mentioned above. In answer to the accusation of fool¬ 
ishness the worthy editor replies by publishing paragraphs from 
Prof. Koch’s first circumstantial publication on the etiology of 
tuberculosis, which he extracts from the Berliner Klinisch 
Wochenschrift of 1882 : “ Tuberculosis of the domesticated ani¬ 
mals, and especially bovine tuberculosis, is undoubtedly another 
source of infection. This fact indicates the position which in 
the future hygiene must take in connection with the danger of 
the flesh and milk of tuberculous animals. Bovine tuberculosis 
is identical with human tuberculosis, and is thus a disease trans¬ 
missible to man. It must, therefore, be treated like other in¬ 
fectious diseases transmissible from animals to human beings. 
Be the danger which arises from the consumption of the flesh 
or milk of tuberculous cattle ever so great or ever so small, it 
exists, and it must be prevented. It is sufficiently well known 
. that anthrax flesh is often consumed by many persons for a long 
time without any injurious result, and yet no one concludes 
therefrom that the traffic in such flesh ought to be permitted. 
“ With regard to the milk of tuberculous cows, it is worthy 
of remark that the extension of tuberculosis to the mammary 
glands is not seldom observed by veterinary surgeons, and it is 
therefore quite possible that in such cases the tuberculous virus 
may be immediately mixed with the milk.” 
What a difference in the opinions of the learned German 
authority ! A. L. 
VOLUME XXV. CLOSED. 
The present number of the American Veterinary Re¬ 
view marks a distinguishing milestone in its long life, for it 
completes a quarter of a century of very earnest work in be¬ 
half of the cause which it has served so faithfully. To the 
comparatively few members of the veterinary profession of this 
country who have been in active practice for all those years, 
and who have followed its course from Volume I, No. 1, until 
the present day, its history is so intermingled with their own 
