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veterinary medicine and surgery. Veterinary literature has made 
enormous progress during the last few years, and the most brilliant 
future may be predicated for it. Now that veterinary medicine is estab¬ 
lished on a scientific basis, the time has come when the bonds which 
unite the students and practitioners of human and veterinary medicine 
should be knit more closely, and the two branches be brought into more 
intimate relationship. Human and veterinary medicine are progressing 
along the path of knowledge, but they are separated from one another. 
Fellow travelers along the steep and rugged course, they should advance 
hand-in-hand, helping each other to surmount the obstacles they will 
have to encounter on the way. Each has much to learn of the other. 
Whilst the objective side of disease is sometimes studied to the greatest 
advantage in animals, the subjective can be investigated in man alone.^ 
It is, therefore, no less necessary for the veterinary physician to have a 
knowledge of disease of man than it is advantageous for the practitioner 
of human medicine to study diseased processes in the lower animals. 
It has for some time past seemed to us that a medical journal has 
great opportunities in bringing about a closer union between these two 
branches of medicine. In its pages each could learn the daily progress 
of the other, and the knowledge gained in each department could be 
integrated to the common stock. With this object in view, we have 
issued a circular to the veterinary profession, informing them that we 
intend devoting a certain space in our columns to comparative pathology 
and medicine, and inviting their co-operation. We propose, in this 
new department, to furnish original communications, special articles and 
reports, editorial remarks, abstracts and extracts from British and 
foreign veterinary writings, reviews of veterinary literature, and news of 
interest and instruction. W T e have no intention of trespassing on the 
ground so well covered by existing veterinary publications, but aim 
rather at enlarging the area of medical literature by affording a new 
channel wherein the two streams may flow. In ordey that our depart¬ 
ment may be successful, we appeal to the active assistance and sympathy 
of our brethren in both branches of our common science. We are sure 
that each will be a gainer by extending his inquiries into the domain of 
the other. We, therefore, invite all who are interested in the progress 
of medicine to help us with material likely to advance the study of com¬ 
parative pathology and medicine .—Medical Examiner, London. 
