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EDITORIAL. 
inents carried on by Prof. Nocard, with antitoxin of French 
and German origin, experiments which we have followed at¬ 
tentively and with great interest, and which have established 
beyond doubt the following faets : 
(1) Antitoxin, whether of French or Ger^nan origin, remains 
powerless when injected at the very appearance of the first 
symptom of the disease. 
(2) It is powerless also when injected twenty-four hours 
previous to the appearance of the first symptoms. 
(3) If made forty-eight hours previous to the appearance of 
the first manifestations it may (?) prevent them and save the 
patient, provided it is injected into the veins and in very large 
doses. 
(4) If made even in small doses a short time after the in¬ 
jection {a fortiori before), it will surely prevent the appearance 
of all tetanic manifestations. 
The conclusions that are thus presented by the celebrated 
French veterinarian are of great weight, and they evidently will 
serve to remove from the serotherapy of tetanus the false inter¬ 
pretations which published records of recovery have given to it. 
The curative treatment of tetanus is yet to be found. 
THE NASHVILLE MEETING OF THE U. S. V. M. A. 
In our news department this month will be found a very 
concise account of the thirty-fourth annual meeting of the Na¬ 
tional Association, and its perusal cannot fail to leave with the 
reader the impression that this convention has, upon the whole, 
surpassed in value, interest, and attendance all previous meet¬ 
ings, and, as the field was new, the wisdom of the Executive 
Committee in undertaking the experiment of meeting in a 
Southern state has been fully proven. Very many of the ques¬ 
tions which were brought before the meeting, both scientifically 
and as matters of policy, are of vital importance, both to the 
profession at large and the welfare of the association. While 
space will prevent their consideration at this time, the REVIEW 
will give them very earnest attention during the fall and winter 
