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EDITORIAL. 
ception of Prof. Law, ever had as handsome an opportunity to 
make the attempt a great and permanent success. Assisted, as lie 
will be, by the name of the institution with which he is connected, 
by her reputation, her high standing faculty, her financial sup¬ 
port, what more can one desire, epecially when, with all this, he 
has also with him the best wishes of the profession. 
Pennsylvania is also preparing for the same work. The in¬ 
tention, announced some time ago, that the Pennsylvania Univer¬ 
sity was going to start a veterinary school, has already received a 
certain amount of execution. Funds have been contributed, 
grounds for buildings have been .provided, her future teachers 
have gone to Europe and have prepared themselves for the work. 
The University has been slower in coming into active life than 
Harvard and the other schools, but she has done it carefullv, and 
though it may be yet two or three years before a regular veterinary 
course will be established, we are much inclined to look upon the 
veterinary school of the Pennsylvania University as the veterin¬ 
ary school of the future. Philadelphia will then redeem the bad 
name and reputation that the McClure put on her at the time of 
the famous veterinary diplomas mill. 
A JUST DECISION. 
We print in this issue the decision rendered by the Hon. 
Judge of one of the District Courts of New York City, in a 
case where a veterinarian met with an accidental fracture of a 
doisal vertebrae, while operating upon a horse for catilaginous 
quitter. The case was very plain, and no anxiety could be felt 
in the matter on the part of the veterinarian. Still it is a good 
precedent worthy of registration, especially in this country, where 
a man is so likely to take similar steps as the plaintiff in this 
action, urged by errors or wrong advisors, where the life and 
value of a horse is at stake. 
