EDITORIAL. 
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The use of artificial serums, of which we spoke some 
months ago in the Review, had better remain confined for 
some time to hypodermic administration, as, notwithstanding 
the results claimed by Mr. Chaussee, it is quite certain that the 
authority of the Professor of Alfort will prevent the free adop¬ 
tion of intravenous injections until more experiments are made. 
A. R. 
VETERINARY JOURNALISM. 
Our esteemed English contemporary, the Veterinary Journal , 
came forth with its January number in the role of a journalistic 
giant, departing from its time-honored conservatism of stepping 
in the same tracks from one year’s beginning to its close, and 
announced that a copy of that issue would be forwarded to every 
known English-speaking veterinarian in the world, in the hope 
of extending its circulation and thus adding to its ability to 
publish a greater monthly. To one who has read the Journal 
for many years, the departure noted would almost take one’s 
breath away, so methodical, so staid, and so conservative has 
been its former conduct. But it showed so much snap and up- 
to-date enterprise in that number that we congratulate the pub¬ 
lishers and the editors, and trust that the expense incurred may 
be returned many times over. Such efforts in America are 
usually non-productive of results, however earnestly they may 
have been pursued. The inauguration of a cash basis by the 
Review, beginning with next month’s issue, is another depar¬ 
ture from a long established custom ; but in this case necessity 
is the father of the venture. Out in California an enthusiastic 
veterinarian began the publication' of a journal in September, 
which made its appearance for two consecutive issues, and sub¬ 
sided into “ innocuous desuetude.” The query might be made : 
“ Since it was so soon undone, why was it ever begun ? ” All 
of which goes to show that he who imagines that the publica¬ 
tion of such a magazine is a work of pleasant luxury and re¬ 
munerative idleness will find out his grievous error before his 
first volume has been completed. Ask Editor Hoskins, of the 
