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EDITORIAL. 
view, and now we will ask the attention of onr readers a moment 
for further explanation. The extracts in the review of the report 
of Prof. McEacliran which gave rise to the storm of attack 
against the enviable reputation of the .Review, and charges of gross 
misrepresentation towards us are these : 1.—“Accompanied by Mi-. 
Gadsden, I visited New York and communicated with the Princi¬ 
pal and Piofessors of the American Veterinary College, none of 
whom had any experience of the disease , and doubted the correct¬ 
ness of the rumors of its existence .” It is true that we, personally, 
had not on hand a case of pleuro-pncumonia to show at a 
moment’s notice ; these things are not always ready to order; but 
is that a proof that we had no experience of the disease, or that 
we doubted its existence ? In our professional relations with 
veterinarians from New York State, in onr meetings of veterinary 
societies, in our private inspection of slaughter houses in New 
York City, we have often received self-evident proofs of the dis¬ 
ease; and it is difficult to understand that under such circum¬ 
stances we have had no experience of the disease , or that we 
doubted its existence. 
The second extract is that “ Prof. Liautard, who up till now 
was sceptical of its existence,'’ etc. We must acknowledge that we 
could not but be sceptical as to the extent of the disease in Bliss- 
ville. We did not expect to find it so serious where it existed, 
and we believe that everybody present there, even Prof. McEach- 
ran, must have been surprised ; but we leave to our readers the 
question how could we have been sceptical as to the existence of 
the disease, when, as we have already said, we had reports now 
and then from veterinarians, our friends and state colleagues, when 
the subject was now and again discussed at our meetings, and 
when we had seen post mortem lesions, which our past experience 
had made as familial to us as those of contagious pleuro-pneu- 
monia ? 
When we printed the extracts which have so seriously aroused 
the feelings of our friend, Prof. McEacliran, it was not with the 
intention of taking from him the credit he deserves for the work 
he has so ably and faithfully performed. To him we know, as 
an officer of the Canadian government, is due the honor of forcing 
