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EDITORIAL. 
complished on that occasion was most intimately connected with 
the work of veterinary sanitary medicine. In his endeavors 
connected with the matter, General Loring shows his appreciation 
of the fact that on the healthy condition of the live stock de¬ 
pends greatly the national wealth of a country. 
From the concise reports which we have received and the ac¬ 
counts communicated by our correspondents (which we will find 
room to publish at an early date) the cause of veterinary science 
was well represented, by among others two governmental veter¬ 
inary authorities, viz : Prof. J. Law, President of the Treasury 
Cattle Commission, and Dr. Salmon of the Agricultural Depart¬ 
ment. The former gentleman read a paper “ On the Contagious 
Diseases, and the Means of Suppressing and Extinguishing them 
the latter on a topic perhaps still more important in a sanitary 
point of view, The Prevention of Contagious Diseases of Ani¬ 
mals.” We understand that Drs. E. F. Thayer of Boston, Gads¬ 
den of Philadelphia, Murray of Detroit, Detmers of Chicago and 
State Veterinarian Paaren were also there as representatives of 
veterinary interests. It is to be regretted that the Eastern 
States were not more numerously represented. Unavoidable 
circumstances may have prevented a few from being present, 
amongst whom we count ourselves, and we fear that a grand op¬ 
portunity has been lost of presenting [before a large public—an 
almost national audience indeed—an interest of the greatest mag. 
nitude, and most intimately connected with the topic discussed at 
the Convention, and which the nation must shortly recognize and 
institute practical measures to foster and promote. We refer to 
the subject of veterinary education—a subject scarcely consid¬ 
ered or recognized by the general public, but which must be 
comprehended and appreciated before any steps can be taken 
leading to measures of protection from the dangers to which the 
people are exposed through the omission of necessary precau¬ 
tionary means without which it is simply useless to hope for the 
suppression and prevention of contagious diseases. 
A careful reading of the transactions and minutes of the 
meetings fails to show us anything bearing upon this subject. 
We read beautiful statements and able papers from the gentle- 
