EDITORIAL. 
We have great respect for the authority of the Journal , ( 
of our best live stock publications, but we feel quite justified b 
long experience in saying that it is not out of human physicii 
that veterinary experts can be made, or that they may be c 
verted into expert veterinarians by merely adding leading vet 
inary works ” to their libraries. The human as well as the vet 
inary physician may in the general principles of medical scier 
have received a first-class professional education, but there i 
great differences between the two, and each requires its spec 
teaching and special drilling before the qualifications of an exp 
can be mastered by either. 
And the correctness of these statements has been often a 
undoubtedly proved by the existence and the various outbreaks 
pleuro pneumonia which have disturbed our agricultural coi 
munity for the last few months. Pleuro-pneumonia contagiosa 
very readily recognised at the post mortem, but ask the your 
graduate who has seen but few cases of the disease, and who 
skill in auscultation and percussion are still deficient, if he has e 
countered no difficulties of diagnosis, of treatment and of pro 
nosis, and experienced no disappointments in results, in confror 
ing his living cases, and note what his answer, if honestly give 
will be. If such is the case with him, what must it be with th 
man whose skill is exclusively acquired by the study of the “lea. 
ing books,” even the best. No. If physicians want to practio 
veterinary medicine let them secure the proper veterinary educ 
tion. They may then help to fill out the ranks of the veterinarian 
which certainly are far from being thronged and not at all like! 
soon to be overcrowded. 
Contagious I leuro-I neumonia. —Western agricultural paper 
aie full of interesting articles on the subject of contagious pleuro 
pneumonia, and the last outbreak at Chicago at the Union Stoc 
Yards is a circumstance not by any means likely to quiet th 
anxiety which has been excited. The Breeders' Gazette says tin 
things will culminate in time, but the pleuro-pneumonia busines 
in this city (Chicago) seems very slow about coming to a head. 
Patience must be cultivated; it is always in order. Doubtles 
there are many obstacles in the way. “ Prompt and resolut 
