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EDITORIAL. 
DR. A. JACOBI ON THE RECOGNITION OF THE VETERINARY 
PROFESSION. 
In the October Review we ventured an inquiry as to what 
would probably be the reception which might be anticipated from 
American practitioners of human medicine to such of their Euro¬ 
pean brethren in the veterinary branch of the science as might 
venture to cross the ocean to attend the contemplated international 
veterinary congress. 
Our inquiry was prompted by our knowledge of the fact that 
medical bodies in this country decline to admit veterinarians, as 
such, to their membership; that if any veterinarians, being also 
physicians, are received into their fellowship, it is alone in virtue 
of their being practitioners in the department of human medicine; 
and that even individuals of this class, are, because of their dual 
qualifications, refused recognition by the New York Academy of 
Medicine, the most eminent ’of the medical institutions of our 
State, a clause of the by-laws of the Academy making the practice 
of human medicine obligatory upon its members. 
If we have not fallen into an error of which we are quite un¬ 
conscious, our inquiry is lacking in neither propriety or pertinency, 
and the learned President of the Academy of Medicine, Professor 
A. Jacobi, in his address to that body, has gone far towards fur¬ 
nishing an answer to our query, in giving expression to his views 
in relation to certain changes which he advocates in the rules 
which refer to the admission of members and the objects which 
should be contemplated as involved in the consideration of the 
qualifications of candidates. 
No one acquainted with Dr. Jacobi will be surprised at his 
words. His fairly won reputation, his impartial spirit, his devo¬ 
tion to the cause of true progress, his desire for information 
wherever to be obtained, all have placed him in the foremost rank 
in his profession. Veterinarians will therefore gladly accept his 
utterances before the Academy when he says: * * * “ Disease 
is many-sided , and we wish to include in our organization those 
who see it from every side * * * all, therefore, whether hospital 
physicians, family and school attendants, specialists, medical 
