American Veterinary Review. 
JUNE, 1897. 
EDITORIAL. 
SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
The Review prefers to be conservative and deliberate rather 
than optimistic and precipitate in the formation of judgment up¬ 
on great events ; it prefers to view the dark side of questions by 
the light radiating from the bright side ; it elects to formulate a 
calm estimate rather than a snap conclusion. But unless onr 
eyes are totally devoid of prophetic vision, onr mind dimmed by 
the recent long years of dejection by the constant contraction of 
the sphere of the veterinarian as a practitioner, as the physician 
to the sick and the halt, there is a wave starting at the fountain¬ 
head which will gradually enlarge and become more powerful 
as it flows on towards its destination—veterinary prosperity. 
We have on many occasions referred to the depression in the 
practice of veterinary medicine, and in every instance have in¬ 
sisted that we were but bearing onr proportionate amount of the 
universal stagnation ; that the prehistoric companion and servant 
of man, the horse, immortalized in the literature and life of every 
land where the sun gives forth its effulgence—more grand, more 
noble, more beautiful, more fleet, more intelligent now than ever 
in the history of the world—was to go into decadence at the end 
of the nineteenth century before the inventions of man, who has 
brought forth the inanimate progression of two self-propelled 
wheels, or the cumbersome and thus-far unmanageable auto-mo¬ 
bile vehicle, was too preposterous to gain the serious contempla- 
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