American Veterinary Review. 
APRIL, 1898. 
All communications for publication or in reference thereto should be addressed to Prof 
Roscoe R. Bell, Seventh Ave. Union St., Borough of Brooklyn, New York City. 
EDITORIAL. 
RETROSPECTIVE AND PROSPECTIVE. 
With the present number the Review begins Volume 
XXII, and at no time in its long history has a similar event 
transpired when we felt as hopeful of the future of the profes¬ 
sion and the paper. The interests of the two are identical. 
Whatever is the business of the one is the concern of the other. 
The American veterinary profession is no longer confined to a 
section of the country ; it is everywhere ; it is national. At 
every point of the American compass stand men of ability and 
with the warmest enthusiasm for the fame and fortune of the 
comparatively new science in this country. Comparative sta¬ 
tistics of its progress here show that it is without a rival in any 
of the permanent sciences of the epoch. Its most enthusiastic 
members can scarcely ask that it shall progress faster than to 
excel all previous experiences of the world. Just as rapidly as 
circumstances have warranted it State protective laws have 
been passed, crushing out empiricism and charlatanism, and 
leaving the qualified members of the profession as the only 
representatives of the art. Associations of veterinarians have 
been formed in every municipality, county and State where 
there are sufficient numbers to do so. The nation has never 
witnessed so large and excellent an association as is compre¬ 
hended in the U. S. V. M. A., with its membership including 
the leading veterinarians in every State and territory in the Re¬ 
public, and year by year becoming so broadened in its views. 
