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EDITORIAL. 
sincerely hope so, at least. We have left, however, a very 
respectable mailing list with which to begin Volume XXIV ; 
but in order that the Review may not halt in its for¬ 
ward march this list must be materially increased. We shall 
do our utmost to accomplish this by publishing a journal full 
of useful and interesting scientific material upon every phase of 
professional advancement, reflecting the pulse of veterinary 
progress with accuracy, guarding its interests and sounding the 
alarm when its welfare is endangered by internal or external 
circumstances. Our colleagues of the profession, who by re¬ 
cording their thoughts and experiences are the real makers of 
the journal—must unite to assist in this work of restoring the 
lists to their former proportions, expunged as they are of all un¬ 
healthy material, and rendered aseptic by the cleansing influ¬ 
ences of the blue pencil. Each one should feel that it rests 
with him to secure at least one other fellow-veterinarian as a 
subscriber, knowing by his own experience that he will be 
doing his brother a real service, and elevating the whole profes¬ 
sion by assisting in the upbuilding of the bulwark of progress 
—veterinary journalism. We shall be only too glad to wel¬ 
come back any of those who forced themselves out by their 
voluntary action, and will guarantee them a brighter journal 
for the coming year than they ever had in the past. 
EUROPEAN CHRONICLES. 
Spiders’ Webs. —We all know what wonderful haemostatic 
properties have for years been granted to spiders’ webs—to 
those little networks, delicate but of doubtful clean appearance, 
and probably many of us have resorted to them to arrest haem¬ 
orrhage. Their value has been sanctioned by practice and en¬ 
dorsed by writers ; they have for a long time been patronized 
by even high surgical authorities. In a recent publication, 
however, made at the Societe Centrale of Paris, an alarm was 
raised against their use : they are haemostatic, but can also be 
the carriers of infectious germs. Mr. Pecus had been asked 
to prescribe for a horse which had received several wounds ; he 
