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EDITORIAL. 
been receiving, if all paid their bills; but the yearly accumula¬ 
tion of unpaid balances of subscribers simply cramps the finan¬ 
cial management to such a degree that the publishers are 
unwilling to bear with it any longer. 
To those who in consequence of this change in methods are 
seemingly harshly dealt with, and who we know do not deserve 
such treatment, we can only say that this step has been taken 
as much for their benefit as for our own, and we firmly believe 
that American veterinary journalism will be greatly benefitted 
by it. 
During the month of March bills will be forwarded to every 
subscriber for all back dues and for Volume XXIV (beginning 
with April, 1900) ; all who remit will receive the Review 
promptly each month for that volume; those who ignore the 
notification will be stricken from the lists. We cannot afford 
to lose one, and we sincerely trust that the blue pencil will not 
mar the name of a single subscriber. But if it does, it is an act 
of their own. 
This notice will be published in a prominent position in the 
February and March issues of the Review, so that there will 
be not one who can assert that he did not have due warning; of 
the unwilling change in methods that has been forced upon the 
publishers. 
EUROPEAN CHRONICEES. 
Application of Electricity to Horses. —Electricity is 
not used in veterinary surgery, or at least in very rare in¬ 
stances, and it is quite certain that among the reasons which 
prevented its entrance in the domain of ordinary practice are 
the difficulties of its application, as well as the dangers to 
which it exposes both the operator and the operated, the form¬ 
er, if the operation is done with the animal standing; to the 
second, in consequence of the means of control which must be 
used—casting. And these ar*e apparently such that men like 
Storkfelth, Jobelot and Moller have in their writings stated that 
the application of electricity was impossible unless the animal 
