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gramme of the three days’ meeting. The national association 
represents every phase of the legitimate science, and every man 
in all its varied departments will find a place where his talents 
will be welcomed and where his assistance will be appreciated. 
If his fortunes and trend have led him along the paths of 
sanitary medicine, he can find no opportunity superior to this 
to gain the latest and most advanced thought in his department, 
for at these meetings sanitary medicine is allotted a large range 
and the brightest men of the land meet for the exchange of 
observations and opinions. 
If, on the other hand, he is devoted to the practice of veteri¬ 
nary medicine, combatting the every-day diseases of domestic 
animals, he will find here a forum where the most successful 
men of the day meet for the enlarging of their own capacity 
by adding the knowledge imparted by their colleagues in the 
reading and discussion of papers upon practical subjects. Since 
it is impossible for the veterinary practitioner to divorce sur¬ 
gery from the routine of his daily work, it is necessary that he 
add to his other qualifications that of an adept surgeon—not 
only for the performance of minor operations, but the successful 
undertaking of those more pretentious procedures which the 
human physician would dispose of by the recommendation of 
some well-known specialist. Modern antiseptic veterinary 
surgery is a very different problem from the attempts of a few 
years ago, and he who would keep pace with the times must be 
alive to the rapidly unfolding methods and discoveries. The 
Review is doing its utmost to keep its readers abreast of the 
progress that is being made along these lines, and we are 
pleased to know that its efforts are being thoroughly appreci¬ 
ated by the veterinarians of the country. The “ Department of 
Surgery,” conducted in each issue by the Drs. Merillat, of 
Chicago, is very gratefully received all over the country, if we 
may judge by the expressions of scores of correspondents. The 
painstaking compilations which they are producing in the 
midst of active practical work is worthy of much commendation, 
while the character of their productions is of a high order and 
