American Veterinary Review. 
AUGUST, 1898. 
All cojnnmnications for publication or in reference thereto should be addressed to Prof. 
Roscoe R. Bell, Seventh Ave. (Sr* Union St., Borough of Brooklyn, New York City. 
EDITORIAL. 
GRANDEUR OF THE VETERINARY PROFESSION. 
While there are many things in common between the medi¬ 
cal and veterinary professions, there are also many points of 
difference. The medical man is a physician and nothing more, 
when there is included under this term the exactions of sanitary 
science and police and the various specialties which the de¬ 
mands of the times have imposed upon that profession ; it, 
therefore, has its surgeons, who in most instances openly declare 
that they know but little of general practice, and hold their 
heads just a little bit higher than the ordinary practitioner ; its 
gynaecologists confine themselves to their own department so 
closely as to ignore almost completely other branches of medi¬ 
cine ; its oculists and aurists would never be applied to for 
opinions on other subjects. So, too, there are men who do not 
go beyond the diseases of the lungs and throat, and not a few 
delve deeply into the mysteries and intricacies of the wonderful 
nervous system to the exclusion of every other phase of medi¬ 
cine. The general practitioner treats the every-day diseases as 
he meets them in his clientele, referring any serious lesion of 
the various apparatuses to the particular specialist with whose 
department the disease or defect may be associated. In this 
way the practice of human medicine has become narrowed down 
to an agglomeration of specialties ; and while the student at 
college must obtain a general knowledge of the whole field, his 
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