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the practice of veterinary surgery, we may get to multiplying 
colleges until, as is the case with some of our numerous classical 
colleges, they become simply diploma mills, and the value of the 
diploma is so minimized as to make it hardly worth preserving. 
It will not do to let a course of lectures on veterinary subjects, 
suitable for non-professionals , usurp the place of a regular veter¬ 
inary college course, under a competent faculty. The influence 
of our Agricultural and Stock Associations should be exercised 
to secure such legal recognition of the profession as will tend to 
encourage graduation at a leading veterinary college as a 
necessary antecedent to successful practice as official position. 
We do not want to encourage a multiplicity of veterinary 
colleges, but the establishment of a few, and the maintenance in 
these of a high standard of merit as a condition of graduation. 
By this means only can a diploma mean something.— National 
Live Stock Journal. 
Prophylactic Treatment of Hydrophobia. —The following 
extract from a letter of Mr. Louis Pasteur, to Professor Jules 
Marcou, dated Arbois (Jura), France, Sept. 7, is kindly furnished 
us by Professor Marcou. “ I take a great deal of pleasure in the 
thought that, on my return to Paris, I shall present to the 
Academy of Sciences an account of what I believe to be a very 
valuable prophylactic treatment against hydrophobia, applicable 
after the accident both to man and dogs. Do you not know 
same feature of this terrible disease which may be peculiar in 
America ? Is it of frequent occurrence there ? .Remember that 
I should have the courage to apply my treatment even on persons 
who, after being bitten, had made the journey from Paris to 
America—although under these conditions at least two weeks 
must have elapsed since the accident—so great is my confidence 
in my method. However, I shall feel more sure of myself when 
I have made a large number of trials on man, which I shall do in 
1885-’86. I have as yet made but one trial—on an Alsatian boy, 
whose mother brought him to me. He had been bitten horribly 
on the fourth of last July, and death by hydrophobia seemed un¬ 
avoidable. Up to the present time I have excellent news of his 
health, although it is sixty-four days since the accident.”— Science. 
