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principles than the practice, and the only channel through 
which the student can keep abreast of the kaleidoscopic transfor¬ 
mation that is daily unfolding, is the pages of contemporaneous 
literature. He who would be of the modern, up-to-the-hour 
class of veterenarians must read the professional periodicals, and 
read them between the lines. The “ Department of Surgery ” 
in the Review is contributing to the general fund of knowledge 
on this subject probably as much as any other source, and we 
commend the work which the Drs. Merillat are doing as of the 
highest order, being performed with that regard for detail and 
precision which should characterize all such productions. From 
many sources are contributed individual articles bearing upon 
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different phases of the subject, and all having their value as 
bearing upon the whole question. At the recent meetings of the 
American and the New York State Veterinary Medical Associa¬ 
tions the subject received the greatest consideration, both in the 
literary programmes and in the clinical demonstrations. Upon 
all sides there seems to be a thirst for improved methods of sur¬ 
gery, and with anaesthetics and antiseptics we are safe in stating 
that the veterinary surgeons of to-day are the peers of those of 
our sister profession. 
Dr. A. Youngberg, Fake Park, Minn., will shortly con¬ 
tribute to the Review the details of his remarkable success 
with the Schmidt treatment for parturient paresis. At the 
Detroit meeting he informed us that out of So cases treated all 
were saved but 2 —the most wonderful record we have yet 
heard of from the use of the iodide of potassium. There are cer¬ 
tain rules which he adheres to in the technique of the treat¬ 
ment, and at our solicitation he has consented to place them 
before the profession. 
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Atlantic City, N. J., is being strongly put forward for 
the meeting of the American Veterinary Medical Association 
of 1901. Both the New Jersey and Pennsylvania State As¬ 
sociations, at their annual meetings last month, passed unan- 
