REPORTS OF CASES. 
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“ tumble to 55 of oar own iutuition. This paucity of detail is a 
radical defect in veterinary literature. We have specialists who 
are busily engaged in the study of bacteriology and the preven¬ 
tion of disease, but to the routine practitioner every improvement 
in therapeutics is of vital importance. 
To keep pace with the times, to sift the practical from the 
visionary, medical facts from medical illusions, to encourage in¬ 
dividual effort by a proper professional recognition of our orig¬ 
inal views, so that our best men may have some inducement to 
publish their ideas, and not keep them locked up within their own 
beasts—this is the road that leads to mutual improvement, and 
the way to build up a vigorous practical literature. The man 
engaged in arduous professional work lays his success in practice 
before the public as a test of his ability; he is imbued with a 
scientific spirit, inasmuch as he is striving for knowledge, even if 
it be the at present much-sneered-down-upon branch—therapeutics. 
If he reads at all during his few spare moments, he looks for 
something practical; something that will raise his average of suc¬ 
cess ; it is more profitable to him than reading erudite essays on 
pathological anatomy, studied with absorbing interest, I will ven¬ 
ture to say, only by profound microscopists, of whom we possess 
comparatively few. We cannot afford to follow those visionaries 
who would like to throw therapeutics overboard, and usurp its 
place by sanitary science and Utopian ideas of eradicating all dis¬ 
ease. Even the ultra-scientific spirits among those gentlemen 
employed by the Bureau of Animal Industry, in the advent of 
this era of good health to our live stock, could be pardoned if 
they placed their hands in their empty pockets and disconsolately 
whistled “ Here’s a state of things.” 
REPORT OF CASES FROM THE AMERICAN VETERINARY 
HOSPITAL 
By J. Soheiblrk, D.Y.S., House Surgeon. 
SUB-PAROTID MELANOTIC TUMORS. 
The history as well as the post-mortem examination made in this 
case furnish an interesting addition to the already crowded his¬ 
tory of melanotic growths in animals of a gray color. This subject 
