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EDITORIAL. 
l^ept down, not placed in pulleys ; the patient can work the next 
day,—and he carries his tail beautifully ? ? ? 
I hope to be able one of these days days to send you the 
name of this great surgeon. A. Iv. 
A Vicious Bill Before the New York Senate. —We pre¬ 
sumed that we had recorded the last attempt at pernicious veter¬ 
inary legislation in the Empire State for this session at least 
when we printed the avalanche of bills in the March and April 
issues of the Review. We were not unmindful of the fact that 
the Review had, in its issue of last November, sounded a warn¬ 
ing to the profession of the State, giving the first breath of a 
mooted attempt that was in contemplation to break our present 
law in the interests of the two-term colleges. As the session 
grew toward its close, and we had watched in vain for such a 
measure, we began to feel that we had been a false prophet, that 
the rumors we had heard in Buffalo were unfounded, or that the 
promoters of the attempt had become discouraged by the ill- 
success of every similar class of legislation before the present 
Legislature, and had abandoned the idea for the present. But 
our admirable Committee on Legislation of the State society, 
who are ever on the alert for any measures that savor of retro¬ 
gression or that aim to nullify existing protective laws, discov¬ 
ered late in the session that Mr. Steiner had introduced in the 
Assembly (bill No. 2170) and Mr. Davis in the Senate (bill 
No. 1252) amendments to chapter 661 of the laws of 1893, 
which, if passed, would accomplish the results which we had 
been led to' believe were to be aimed at. The committee at 
once took steps to promote their defeat, and through their 
efforts the profession poured forth such a volume of dissension 
to the Committees on Public Health as to effectually estop their 
progress in the Legislature. We received early information that 
they would be permitted to slumber in committee without any 
attempt at awakening until the session had ebbed away. The 
Review especially wishes to extend its thanks, in behalf of the 
profession at large, to the physician-chairman of the Senate 
