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EDITORIAL. 
word, and the decision of the Court of Appeals in the case of Unitec 
States Medical College cannot apply to the American Veterinary 
College. The proper test, and the only one which could satisfy 
must be that which they have sought from the fountain of author 
ity, the Legislature of the State, and this has been obtained in the 
form of an act of which we print the text in the present numbei 
of the Review. This act was passed by the Assembly on the 12th. 
and by the Senate on the 15th, and received the signature of the 
Governor. 
The work of the American Veterinary College, as incorpor¬ 
ated under the general law in 1875, is now sanctioned, reaffirmed 
and recognized by special act of the Legislature of 1886. 
What will be the next step in advance of the constantly 
progressing history of that institution, remains to be seen. 
Hog Cholera not Rouget—What is it ? — Of all the dis¬ 
coveries which have resulted from the manifold labors of Pas¬ 
teur, it has seemed to us that not one has promised to be of 
greater advantage to the agriculturist and the stock raiser, or, 
therefore, of greater interest to the veterinarian, than that which 
comprehends the prophylaxy of hog cholera. We could but re¬ 
flect that if so simple an operation as that of double vaccination 
should be sufficient to protect the swine of the country from a 
disease which is costing our people millions upon millions an¬ 
nually in pecuniary loss, it was a matter which quite too largely 
affected the national wealth to be ignored or slighted. 
What we have ourselves observed of the disease in Europe; 
the post-mortem examinations we have had opportunities of con¬ 
ducting in this country; the reports we have studied in the 
various agricultural papers; the light w r e had derived from the 
•writings of Detmers, Law, Salmon and other investigators, con¬ 
cerning the nature, the etiology, the symptoms, and the lesions 
of the disease, whose views we had carefully collated and consid¬ 
ered ; had, we confidently judged, fully justified the conclusion 
we had reached, that the disease in Europe and in America was 
identical. Allowing for such minor differences as must be always 
looked for in the writings of different authors on the same sub¬ 
ject, the general result seemed to be a settled one, and the natural 
