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EDITORIAL. 
cinoma were produced in animals by the injection of culture 
medium secured from cancerous tissue containing the above 
animal parasites. 
The ever increasing addition to scientific knowledge causes 
a constant changing of the line of demarkation between the ani¬ 
mal and vegetable kingdoms, between whose border lands there 
lies a vast unexplored region; a sort of “No man’s land ” 
teeming with numerous and varied forms of organic life ; many 
of these organisms are, no doubt, disease-producing, but of so 
minute a form as to be beyond the visual range of our most 
powerful microscopes. There is, perhaps, no field of original 
research that will so well repay the patient labors of the future 
pathologist and biologist as this field ; or supply more lasting 
benefits to human and animal life. * W. J. M. 
“THE COBBLER AND THE LAST.” 
A monthly magazine, called The Stable , published in New 
York City, frequently contains articles upon subjects allied to 
the veterinary profession, some of which emanate from reliable 
sources, but most of them are innocent of any real value, and 
are full of untrue and misleading statements. They are on a 
par with the Journal's alleged scientific editorials, one of which 
was recently reproduced in the Review, wherein the membrana 
nictitans was stated as the cause of pinkeye in horses, for which 
its extirpation was advised. In the January issue of The Stable 
a leading editorial dealt with a crusade said to have been inau¬ 
gurated in Chicago to compel owners of horses to have them 
properly shod, as great suffering was alleged to flow from this 
source. While there will scarcely be found any one with a 
knowledge of the subject who will dispute the general fact, 
we fancy the situation in Chicago is not as bad as the article 
makes it appear, and certainly the condition is little worse in 
the Windy City than in other large municipalities. And while 
the editor cries out in plaintive tones for reform in this direc¬ 
tion, his learned suggestions would probably inflict more suffer¬ 
ing upon the object of his solicitation than all the horseshoers 
