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EDITORIAL. 
The State has neglected her duty in this regard, and daily pays 
the penalty, which I am sure cannot be a light one. We are in 
great need of a State Veterinarian, and as greatly do we need 
many civil practitioners. 
EDITORIAL 
INOCULATION IN CONTAGIOUS FEVERS. 
The truth of the germ theory in the development of conta¬ 
gious diseases, and the value of inoculation as a prophylactic 
against these affections, have in the past few years found a long 
list of investigators in Europe, and while many of the facts ad¬ 
vanced by Pasteur have found their supporters in various coun¬ 
tries on the continent, they have also been rejected by a few. And 
while Germany has produced the most serious opposers of the ex¬ 
periments of the celebrated French chemist, recent discussions 
which have taken place at the Academy of Medicine in Paris seem 
to show that the great results obtained by the new discoveries are 
not yet endorsed by all the professors of either human or veter¬ 
inary medicine. 
Pasteur’s discoveries and invention of a process for attenuat¬ 
ing the virus have been followed by the investigations of others, 
amongst whom must be mentioned the names, now celebrated, of 
the two French veterinarians, Toussaint and Chauveau. America 
has not, however, remained ignorant of the good work which 
could be realized in the new direction, and new investigations of 
the causes and prophylaxy of contagious diseases. Dr. E. Salmon, 
a graduate of veterinary medicine of Cornell University, has fol¬ 
lowed from the beginning in the path opened by the European 
workers. 
As early as in July, 1880, that is, nine months before Chau¬ 
veau made his comm,unication before the Academy of Sciences, , 
he had made experiments in the effects of inoculation made with 
diluted virus, and he has since kept them up and applied this 
method to his thorough investigation of fowl cholera, as his ex¬ 
tensive and elaborate report, published in the Report of the Com¬ 
missioner of Agriculture for 1881-82, shows. 
