EDITORIAL. 
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oat-break in 1877 occurring at the same season of the year, 
(February), must be regarded as a suggestive circumstance, if not 
as a predisposing cause. 
EDITORIAL. 
OUR FOURTH VOLUME. 
Our friends and readers will receive this number, no doubt, 
with the same satisfaction that we have in issuing it. The first 
number of the fourth volume, it presents itself with the same 
prospect as its predecessors, and with firm will to surpass them in 
interest and usefulness. 
Since its birth, the American Veterinary Review has met 
with a success unequaled by any periodicals of its kind, specially 
if we consider the conditions under which it was issued. 
Acknowledged by all at home and abroad as the representative 
of veterinary interests in America, it will be continued as such, if 
work and proper efforts are sufficient to reach this object. 
Though no change will take place in the editorial staff, ar¬ 
rangements have been made, and we hope will be carried out, by 
which much matter of interest will be obtained for our paper, 
and thus we will, still better than in the past, be able to provide 
our readers with the most recent news and investigations, which 
may be presented to the profession either at home or on the con¬ 
tinent. 
Our correspondents will here accept our sincere thanks for 
their past kindness, and our readers for their friendly support 
during the last three years. 
The veterinary profession in America has for the last few years 
made great strides on the road to improvement, and we can be 
proud to think that, all of us, through our Veterinary Review, 
have more or less contributed to these advantageous steps in the 
right direction, which cannot do otherwise than to bring veteri¬ 
nary medicine to the standing which it ought to claim. 
