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have near the bed of each patient, easy to reach, a concentrated 
warm solution of the acid, with compresses that could be often 
changed, to be used from the time the labor is finished ? It would 
also be prudent to have those compresses previously warmed, to 
say 150°, a heat more than sufficient to kill all the germs of vulgar 
organisms. Were I sufficiently authorized to name this communica. 
tion as I did, (I have stated the facts as they were reported to me and 
have mentioned my interpretations), still I know that in medical in 
vestigations it is difficult to avoid interference with preoccupied 
ground. Again, I do not forget that medicine and veterinary science 
are strangers to me. For this I ask the judgment and comment of 
this illustrious society. Indifferent to frivolous and capricious 
objections, and with just contempt for the vulgar scepticism which 
adopts doubt as a habit, I look towards the militant scepticism 
which properly makes doubt a stimulus to inquiry, and whose 
rule of conduct has for its motto : “ more light.” I am pleased 
to thank Messrs. Chamberland, Roux and Doleris for their kind 
assistance in collecting the observations I have now presented. 
EDITORIAL. 
MEETING OF UNITED STATES VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The good city of New York, the great metropolis of our great 
country, was quite recently the seat, by previous appointment, of 
the annual meeting of the American Medical Association. The 
occasion proved, in every way, a magnificent success, as well 
through the large numbers of delegates in attendance from all 
parts of the country, as in the number of excellent papers which 
were brought before the different sessions of the Association. 
In a few weeks, a somewhat similar gathering will again take 
place in this city, viz: the annual meeting of the United States 
Veterinary Medical Association , at which, also, many members 
will doubtless be present, and where, we hope, the profession will 
be well and largely represented. 
