EDITORIAL. 
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to the top, omitting the intermediate steps, will make our poise 
on the pinnacle very unsteady. We are going along fast 
enough, and to exceed natural growth is to repeat the experi¬ 
ence of the glacier climber. 
While advising that amount of caution consistent with thor¬ 
oughness and permanency, we urge our brethren everywhere to 
push forward, to be insistent upon the recognition of veterinary 
medicine as a high and noble science, her true members as true 
scientists, and her future the most glorious. 
With this salutation on the occasion of the beginning of the 
new volume, we promise that it shall be greater than any that 
has preceded it—great in the sense of the good it can do to the 
profession and to humanity. 
EUROPEAN CHRONICEES. 
Brown-Sequard Treatment.— The readers of the Re¬ 
view are well acquainted with the treatment inaugurated after 
the experiments reported by Brown-Sequard, made with the ex¬ 
tract which he had obtained from the testicles of animals, and 
from which, if we are not mistaken, started the therapeutical 
use of the various products known in our day as spermine, ner¬ 
vine, thyroidine, etc. It is true, however, that the application 
of the Brown-Sequardian method of treatment has not yet 
entered very extensively into human medicine ; but there are 
practitioners, and quite a number of them, in the United States 
who have recourse to them on many occasions, and with some 
satisfactory results have been obtained. 
As far as veterinary medicine goes, with the exception of a 
few single attempts made now and then, the method of Brown- 
Sequard has not yet survived the test which, if we are to listen 
to the series of comparatively numerous experiments made in 
Europe, it is entitled to. Indeed, this method has given a num¬ 
ber of satisfactory results, which deserve attention and would 
justify experiments at the hands of others. 
To mention but a few among the cases with which the 
treatment has shown its value may be mentioned those of a 
