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EDITORIAL. 
for such degree, providing they would submit themselves to certain 
rules and regulations as provided by a Board of Censors of said Society, 
or of the Society who represents, to a great extent, all the Veterinary 
interests of the country, the United States Veterinary Medical Asso¬ 
ciation. 
If this could be obtained—and we have reason to believe that there 
would be no great difficulty in it, if we can judge from what we know of 
our own State—if such was the case, what would be the result ?—a large 
increase in the number of the true workers of the Veterinary profession, 
a full and well-deserved reward to many who, by a sense of bashfulness, 
or from some other cause, hesitate to ask recognition—a great step for¬ 
ward in the advancement of our noble art, and, we believe, a terrible 
blow to quackery and ignorance. 
We offer these remarks merely with the desire of calling the atten¬ 
tion of the American Veterinary Surgeons to what we consider but a 
step in the right direction, and hope to hear from many of our corres¬ 
pondents on this important subject. 
ANATOMY OF REGIONS. 
Our English Veterinary literature has for the last few years been 
considerably increased, thanks to the continued exertions of a few Eng¬ 
lish Veterinarians, and principally, not to say almost entirely, of Mr. G. 
Fleming ; and we feel it our duty to take example, and to try to give 
our quota towards it. 
To that effect, as soon as the Precis de Chirurgie Veterinaire , of 
Peuch & Toussaint, was published, it has seemed to us that a part, if not 
the entire work, would prove of great interest, and be beneficial to the 
American practitioner. We are glad to-day to announce that we have 
obtained from the authors of this excellent work the authorization to 
publish in the Review the portion of the book which treats of the Sur¬ 
gical Anatomy of the Domestic Animals. 
Offering, as this does, an excellent means of reference in cases of 
important surgical operations, it will be found by all practitioners, old 
and young, an excellent way of refreshing their minds in a study, which, 
practised but little when out of college, is of such importance in the 
successful performance of an operation. 
We begin, to-day, the publication of this translation, and hope that 
it will prove interesting and advantageous to our readers. 
