EDITORIAL. 
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scope of the essay involves not merely the question of adding a 
supplementary “M.D.” to the title of V.S.” or “ D.V.S.,” but 
also the general subject of veterinary education, as now organized 
and conducted in this country. And, indeed, a careful consider¬ 
ation of the paper will show that it is not to the proposed connec¬ 
tion of the two titles that allusion is made primarily and strictly, 
so much as to the possible harm to the veterinary profession 
which might result from certain prevalent tendencies. 
Many reasons are given which may be, and are alleged, in 
justification of the proposal to appropriate the additional title of 
“ M.D.” With some it is a question of personal pride and social 
standing; with others it is a method of comparison of the advan¬ 
tages and the objections which may be alleged by either profes¬ 
sion. With a few it is a method of disposing of some two or 
three intrusive years of time, in order to overleap an interval and 
reach the age when, in their own estimation, they may be more 
sure of acquiring the confidence of the public. With others—and 
their reason is the best of all—it is a desire to improve their med¬ 
ical knowledge by filling up what they feel to be a deficiency in 
their education, which sometimes must certainly have been very 
defective originally, to need improvement in each one of its 
various branches. It is not a deficiency which is noticeable in 
anatomy, nor in physiology, nor in histology, nor in surgical 
pathology, and so on ; it is in nothing in particular—it is in all; 
it is on. every subject. 
'I'he paper was intended to show what the author believes to 
be an error—almost a loss of time, indeed; and while he holds 
that the title of “ M.D.” is one of which every man who can fairly 
acquire it may feel proud, it has seemed to him that there was 
danger of the commission of an error by certain young American 
veterinarians with whom the desire of securing an improved edu¬ 
cation was less the real motive of their aspirations than the grati¬ 
fication of a little personal vanity. 
DEATH FROM GLANDERS—HOW TO PREVENT IT. 
One more victim to this fearful disease, in the ranks of the 
veterinary profession, is to be recorded. A young army veter- 
