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EDITORIAL. 
medical College. Have we not enough of them, not only in New York 
but all over the country ? Is not the medical profession already suffi¬ 
ciently crowded ? Every one who has some knowledge of the standing 
of the human medical profession will agree that there is no more need 
for medical Colleges, and if we are correct in this statement, we would 
suggest that the Board of Trustees of Cornell University creates in New 
York a veterinary department of their own. New York offers facilities 
for such an undertaking surpassed by no other city in the Union, and 
the success which has attended the establishment of Veterinary schools 
in that metropolis tells enough of the certainty of success when started 
under the auspices of Cornell University. A school of that kind will 
do away with personal undertaking. Sincere and earnest as they may 
have been, they could, they would never compete with an establishment 
as that corporation could start; and one amongst all we will say that 
though it might be considered as likely to interfere with the work in 
which we have been so seriously engaged in our own sphere for a num¬ 
ber of years, we would gladly exert in behalf of the new school all our 
efforts, and help it on the road to success ; we have worked hard to 
elevate veterinary medicine in America, we have the firm conviction 
that our work has done some good, but let us have something which 
would show better prospect for the education of veterinarians and we 
will, without hesitation or arriere peusee , make room for the new start, 
the Veterinary Department of Cornell University. 
“RESPECTABLE PROFESSIONAL STANDING. 
“ There are few, if any, who can afford to be entirely independent 
of the opinion of their associates. A medical man may declare his free¬ 
dom by acting as an individual rather than a part of a great and influ¬ 
ential community ; but he does so often at the risk of losing his influence, 
not only as a medical man, but as a member of a learned profession. 
We confess that we intend these remarks to bear upon the necessity of 
belonging to medical organizations, or in some way identifying oneself 
with professional interests generally. Although this is a fact which is 
not so well appreciated in medical circles as it should be, we now and 
then have an illustration of its importance. Especially is this the case 
when a medical man appears as a witness. Here, in order to give his 
testimony its full force, he has to prove to the jury his capability to 
testify not only by his education and qualifications, but his affiliation 
with his profession. In a recent instance of this sort, a medical gentle¬ 
man of this city, who openly boasted that he did not care to become a 
