EDITORIAL. 
benefit from its use. There are, without doubt, many eases which 
could be recorded of the advantages attending its use, but we 
ought also to hear of the danger of its application when combined 
with general anaesthesia. In human surgery the danger of the 
complications which attend the local application of this potent 
remedy, when followed by general anaesthesia, in case of failure 
of the effects of the first administration, are well known. These 
are facts with which the veterinarian ought to be familiar, and 
he should especially remember that the previous use of cocaine 
precludes the immediately following administration of chloroform 
or ether. 
♦ 
The army veterinarian finds in us once again, as he always 
will, an ally and assistant in his endeavors to obtain from the 
authorities in Washington a recognition of the rank and position 
to which he is so clearly entitled. In our last number we ex¬ 
pressed our opinion in the matter, and proffered our advice to 
our unfortunate confreres in the army, and at their request we 
now gladly publish the circular handed to us, and which treats of 
the defects of the present rules for the government of the veter¬ 
inary service. The paper also refers to the necessity of the 
reforms they suggest. This circular ought to receive the endorse¬ 
ment and support of every veterinary organization and every in¬ 
dividual practitioner in the country. 
Appointment of Prof. Chauveau .—The melancholy death of 
Henry Bouley had left an important position vacant in France, 
that of General Inspector of the veterinary schools of that 
country. And, notwithstanding a strong but questionable protest 
from the worthy editor of the Echo, who is pretty well known by 
French veterinarians as what we call in the slang vocabulary of 
this country, a “ chronic kicker,” Professor Chauveau has been 
transferred from the directorship of the Lyons school to the 
vacant position. Such an appointment may excite but little in- 
i terest on this side of the water, but when we heard of it we 
could not avoid the reflection, how advantageous it would be 
if such a position could be created in the United States. Let 
us for a moment reflect upon the benefits which might be 
derived from it, and especially how good a thing it would be if 
