EDITORIAL. 
427 
acts are established for their abolition. And recently the legislature 
of New York State was called upon to pass a law concerning the dis¬ 
ease known as glanders. 
We present in our pages two articles relating to pleuro-pneumonia: 
one, extracted from the Country Gentleman , is from the fertile pen of 
E. Salmon, D. V. M.; the other from E. T. Thayer, V. S. 
An advocate of inoculation, Dr. Salmon, after calling the attention 
to the different modes which have been put into practice, closes its 
subject by recommending the operation in all cases where the disease 
has made its appearance. That his views are endorsed bv many, there 
is no doubt, and the Wilhelm mode of operating has made many con¬ 
verts on the other side of the ocean. 
In the January number of the Review, Dr. C. H. Michener re¬ 
ports an outbreak, in which inoculation was performed, and from which, 
as far as we can judge, much benefit was expected. 
One of the Eastern papers, the Ploughman , gave to the subject the 
honor of an editorial, which Dr. E. T. Thayer forwards us, and which 
we reprint in this issue. With this Dr. Thayer gives us a few remarks 
on the same subject. We all know the standing of the doctor as an 
authority on the condition of this disease in Massachusetts, having 
been called at different times, by his own State, to investigate pleuro¬ 
pneumonia, and to report as to the means of checking it. Rather op¬ 
posed to the process recommended by Dr. Salmon, our friend Thayer 
points out that the only way to deal with pleuro-pneumonia is the old 
mode of stamping out. 
VETERINARY EDUCATION. 
Some time ago our indefatigable correspondent and friend, Mr. F. S. 
Billings, sent us a series of papers relating to veterinary education. Embrac¬ 
ing, as the subject does, and covering, as the papers do, an important dis¬ 
cussion on the matter, with the desire to give to these long articles all the 
wide circulation the whole question deserves, we succeeded in having 
them published in one of our best papers, the Turf , Field and Farm , 
whose editors, always ready to promote veterinary interests, as well 
as those of the people, kindly undertook their publication. So far 
four of the papers are published, and no doubt many amongst us have 
become familiar with the conclusion to which the author is driving, 
viz. : the establishment in the United States of a National Veterinary 
Institute. 
