EDITORIAL 
97 
he measure adopted in England some few years ago. But its 
cceptance was perhaps a necessity. It was probably “ now or 
ever,” and if any one feels like blaming the action of the New 
r ork State Veterinary Society for their action, a consolation re¬ 
gains in the fact that the society may indulge in the reflection 
hat while the present generation may derive but little benefit 
rom the act, the coming generation will profit by it to such an 
xtent that before many years have passed, no one in the State of 
lew York will be found practicing veterinary medicine without 
aving been regularly educated and graduated. The State of 
few York was the first to establish veterinary schools in this 
ountry, and it is within her territory that the first State Veter- 
^ary Society was organized. It is to her honor that she is the 
rst to give legal recognition to the profession, and to take a de- 
isive step towards the extirpation of quackery in the country. 
Babies. —We have on various occasions called the attention of 
eterinarians to the great advantage they might derive from the 
ivestigations made in rabies by Pasteur, as a means of doubtful 
iagnosis of that disease in dogs. A case which will be found in 
lie present issue, reported by Dr. Walrath, House Surgeon to 
fe American Veterinary Hospital, illustrates the benefit that 
lay be obtained by the cerebral inoculation of the medulla ob- 
ingata of dogs which have been put to death on suspicion of 
uffering with rabies, and at the post mortem of which, though 
he lesions might justify the diagnosis, yet a doubt might still re- 
lain. In the case recorded, the dog had presented at the autopsy 
omparatively trifling lesions, perhaps sufficient to have been sat- 
lactory in past years, but still of such a character as scarcely to 
istify a trip from America to Europe. Experimental medicine 
ame to the rescue. Another dog was trephined, a portion of the 
ledulla of the suspected dog was introduced under the dura 
later of the second, and twenty days afterwards death resulted 
'om dumb rabies. A telegram was sent at once to the interested 
arties of the result obtained, of the confirmed diagnosis, and the 
nfortunate young lady who had been bitten by the first dog was 
laced under Pasteur’s treatment, and will undoubtedly escape a 
tost horrible death. In connection with this case, however, the 
