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of the private veterinary colleges because it believed they had 
been ignored and injured, and it takes some pride in the an¬ 
nouncement of the action of the Regents, whom it congratu¬ 
lates upon their appreciation of the integrity of the Common¬ 
wealth towards its chartered institutions, and their material as¬ 
sistance to the efforts of veterinarians to raise their schools and 
their profession to the highest possible standard. 
Having accomplished this much, the Review admonishes 
the schools to use every effort to profit by the opportunity, to 
the end that they may reap that reward to which they are so 
justly entitled. 
EUROPEAN CHRONICLES. 
Serotherapy.— The application of serotherapy is gradually 
spreading all over Europe. In England, in some parts of the 
Continent, tetanus now is very commonly treated with anti- 
tetanic serum, while in France it seems yet to be limited only 
to prevent its appearance. But it is not only for that disease 
that serotherapy is resorted to in veterinary medicine. Infec¬ 
tious pneumonia and purpura haemorrhagica (anasarca) are also 
submitted to the same medication. 
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Purpura. —In the United States a few practitioners have 
used injections of serum in the treatment of this affection, and 
some very interesting cases have been recorded by practitioners 
in the pages of our American journals. These cases, however,, 
have been only a few,—and probably the treatment has not yet 
entered into the general practice of American veterinarians, be¬ 
cause it is a new treatment, which in their estimation has not 
yet proved itself. 
The relation of the observations made by MM. Mouilleron 
and Rossignol deserve on that account professional notice. 
In a recent communication on which Mr. Cagny had to 
make a report, they presented very interesting statistics. First 
they gave the number of cases that were treated by what might 
be called some of the classical treatments (209 subjects) during 
