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All this time the secretion was passing out of the external 
opening. Twenty-four hours after removing the seton, I tried 
the duct by forcing water through with a syringe, and found 
it clear. Had no trouble in closing the external opening. 
Ten days after the operation, the mare went to work and has 
been well and hearty ever since. There is a slight enlargment of 
the dependant part of the duct and sotne scar from the blisters, 
but otherwise the mare is as sound as ever. 
I cannot give any cause for the trouble. There was no cal¬ 
culus, and had been no swelling of the obstructed or obliterated 
part of the duct. I was assisted very much in the operation by 
Dr. Gable, M.D., who, I am glad to say, takes a hearty interest 
in veterinary matters. 
P. S.—Since writing the above the enlargement has all passed 
away. 
EDITORIAL. 
VETERINARY COLLEGES IN THE UNITED STATES. 
By the time the present number of the Review reaches its 
readers, the different Veterinary Colleges throughout the United 
States will have opened their session of 1 883-4. 
It is certainly very gratifying to every veterinarian, every 
stockholder, every humanitarian, to know that veterinary science 
is so much more advanced in our midst than it was but a few 
years ago. We see now institutions like the American Veterin¬ 
ary College on a firm and lasting basis, having passed its infancy, 
its boyhood, indeed, and is now entering upon the good work of 
its manhood : its classses increasing yearly, and the methods of 
instruction, practical as well as theoretical, annually improved. 
Its teachers, from long work and great experience, now study 
not how to conduct a college to secure a class, but only how to 
make more thorough the teaching to a class already too large for 
the building now occupied. 
Other ventures are being made to establish similar schools, 
one in Pennsylvania, another in Massachusetts, among the rest. 
