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EDITORIAL. 
proposed or adopted to meet and combat the evil, and it will not 
be long, therefore, before we shall be in possession of an amount 
of knowledge and a mass of suggestion, acquired at the serious 
cost of a large experience, which will make the history of con¬ 
tagious pleuro-pneumonia in the United States quite as copious 
and complete as any which lias been compiled and furnished by 
European writers upon the same subject. 
That a largely if not a completely successful result is eventu¬ 
ally to reward the measures which have been instituted in several 
of the States for the enforcement of the sanitary means which 
have been authorized by the State authorities, and whether or not 
the severe but proper, because necessary, resort to the butcher’s 
knife and the destruction of every newly discovered victim of 
the disease is certainly to secure the extirpation of the evil, are 
matters upon which no man can absolutely pronounce. But there 
are some facts and conclusions which cannot in any wise be ig¬ 
nored or overlooked—to wit, that the people have at length 
become thoroughly awake to their endangered interests; that 
they fully realize the serious, and in some cases the ruinous losses 
to which their property is exposed; that when money is called 
for to aid in the practical work of carrying into effect the neces¬ 
sary sanitary processes demanded by the occasion, it is freely con¬ 
tributed ; and that sensible and intelligent owners of cattle prop¬ 
erty are wisely looking for advice and assistance to properly 
qualified veterinary surgeons as their best, if not their only 
friends and counsellors in what may already, we fear, be denom¬ 
inated a national emergency. 
MEDICUS VETERINARIUS AND MEDICINE DOCTORIS. 
We publish in this number, by special request of the New 
York State Veterinary Society, a short paper which was read 
before that body at their last meeting. 
The paper had been prepared with the intention of presenting 
it before a full meeting, but as the attendance on that occasion 
was comparatively small, its further publication in the columns 
of the Review was deemed advisable, in order more fully to give 
effect to the purpose of the author, the society deeming that the 
