EDITORIAL. 
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For the 24 hours ending Oct. 18th, 7 a. m., out of 54 cadavers, 
40 presented the external lesions of purpura. 
For same period ending Oct. 19, out of 36 cadavers, 17 
a 
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20, 
a 
16 
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8 
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22, 
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37 
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18 
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23, 
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15 
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7 
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25, 
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26 
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14 
a total of 104 out of 184 dead animals, or an average of 56^ 
per cent. 
Showing, as this no doubt does, the severity of this disease, it 
would be very interesting to have similar statistics obtained in 
other cities and to have them recorded. They would go far in 
proving to our horse owners that though the disease as it appeared 
first was not a necessarily fatal affection, it nevertheless rendered 
the animal unable to perform any kind of work, and by its debil¬ 
itating influence make him predisposed to contract other forms of 
disease as long as the blood remained loaded with the poisonous 
element which accompanied these species of afflictions. 
VETERINARY COLLEGE OPENINGS. 
Like medical schools, veterinary colleges have resumed their 
work, and once more for several months the halls of the different 
institutions will be filled by students who are desirous to obtain a 
medical or veterinary education. Medical schools have no reason 
to complain of the attendance on their lectures, for the number of 
students can be counted by hundreds and some of them have scarcely 
room enough for the new applicants. Veterinary colleges are not 
as yet in the same flourishing condition. But tbe time is certainly 
coming very fast when the buildings our veterinary faculties oc¬ 
cupy will be found too small and their accommodations deficient. 
This applies specially to the American Veterinary College, 
which reopened its course of the first of October, before a large 
audience, who had come to hear the introductory lecture, which was 
delivered by Prof. J. L. Robertson. Some changes have been 
made in the faculty of the college, and while some great losses 
