EDITORIAL 
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men present on pleuro-pneumonia principally, as to the methods 
of dealing with it when present, but nothing more. 
If the Fourth International Veterinary College, held recently 
in Brussels, was right in adopting a resolution upon the organiza¬ 
tion of sanitary veterinary service, which declares that this, once 
organized, ought to employ the greatest number possible of veter¬ 
inarians; and again in the discussion on veterinary education, 
expressing the “ desire that veterinary schools in all countries 
be State institutions /” and if it is proposed r to deal with conta¬ 
gious diseases as proper sanitary medicine demands, has not the 
time come for our General Government to provide for the bring¬ 
ing together of the greatest number possible of veterinarians to 
consider the question of establishing State institutions for the 
thorough education of practitioners in veterinary science ? 
We have no doubt that if the attention of the Chicago Con¬ 
vention had been directed to this important subject General Geo. B. 
Loring would not have remained blind to its pressing claims, nor 
would he have refused to lend his powerful official aid and influ¬ 
ence to the promotion of means for protecting the immense 
amount of private and national wealth represented by our domes¬ 
tic animals. 
NEW YORK STATE VETERINARY CONVENTION. 
We have at various times, in previous numbers of the Review, 
called the attention of our readers to a movement which, started 
in some of the Western States, would probably extend itself to¬ 
ward this part of the country, and which might prove to be of 
great advantage to the veterinary profession, and tend in an im¬ 
portant degree to the advancement of veterinary medicine in the 
United States. This movement consisted in the inauguration of 
a series of State Veterinary Conventions, with the object of 
forming State Veterinary Associations, the object of which was 
then supposed to be the establishment among the practitioners of 
the States of a feeling of harmony and union, which could not 
fail to be of great general advantage, and which might not only 
newly verify the old proverb, that “ union is strength,” but go 
