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EDITORIAL, 
veterinarian of education, and then we will see a new era take 
place, not only in the veterinary, but also in the medical profes¬ 
sion. 
For the realization of this idea we would suggest, besides the 
formation of chairs of comparative pathology in our medical 
schools, the opening to our medical societies of membership to 
worthy veterinarians. As reported in the Medical Record , the 
medical scientific bodies of Europe count amongst their members 
and their officers, veterinary surgeons: Bouley, Chauveau, Keynal 
and many others are found in the ranks of the Academy of 
Medicine in Paris, Thiernesse, Edele and others belong to the 
Academy of Medicine of Bruxelles. Why should the Academy 
of Medicine of New York be less generous, and why should it 
not have, like its sister societies, a veterinary bureau for the essen¬ 
tial investigation of veterinary subjects for the common benefit 
of a common science—comparative pathology. 
While we thank our editorial brethern of New York and 
Philadelphia for their earnest movement in this important sub¬ 
ject, we hope that they will not rest on their single effort, and 
that they will continue to keep before the medical profession at 
large the powerful link which unites these two branches of medi¬ 
cal science. If human anatomy, physiology, therapeutics and 
surgery even owe so much to investigations on the lower animals, 
there is no doubt that pathology studied also in a comparative 
manner can be most scientifically beneficial. 
PROFESSIONAL COURTESY. 
It appears that in some of our numbers, articles have appeared 
from the pen of one of our correspondents, which seem to have 
carried amongst our English friends, and especially with our 
most eminent and friendly colleague, the editor of the Veteri¬ 
nary Journal , an idea of unprofessional language towards 
our transatlantic brethren. Knowing as we do the high esteem 
held by the author of those articles towards Mr. Fleming, we 
feel certain that though the style of the writing may have ap¬ 
peared out of place, there never was, on his part, the slightest de- 
