EDITORIAL. 
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Let every city then have its Board of Health constituted with 
an able veterinarian, responsible to the supervision of the State 
Board, which in time, shall be controlled by the National Sanitary 
Bureau; then, and then only, can veterinary science give to the 
public the protection which the preventive measures of thoroughly 
applied, known sanitary laws always guarantee. 
VETERINARY AND HUMAN MEDICINE. 
Some time ago we published an article, in one of our contem¬ 
poraries, in which we endeavored to set forth the advantages that 
would accrue, not only to the public, but to veterinary and human 
medicine as well, if many members and contemplating students 
of human medicine, would devote their attention to the study of 
the veterinary specialty. 
In a subsequent number of the same journal, appeared a reply 
to our article, calling us to the bar of the medical fraternity, for the 
asserted audacity of making a proposition, which our respondent 
elected to treat as an intentional insult. 
The matter rested there, and u E.H.K.O.B.E.L.C.,” no doubt 
felt, in presence of the silence following his answer, that he was 
probably about the only one in his profession who entertained 
opinions kindred to those he had so facetiously expressed, while 
we felt sure that the great majority of physicians believed with 
us, that the medical ranks were over-crowded, and veterinary 
medicine offered both an honorable and lucrative field of escape 
from the impending dilemma. 
In this issue of the Review we make room for the letters 
above referred to, and also a report of the proceedings of a 
Medical Society in Maryland, wherein our views are supported by 
able and respectable practitioners of human medicine, who look 
upon veterinary surgery in its proper scientific light. 
It is particularly gratifying to us to find medical men awaking 
to the advantages which our profession presents, for it promises 
us a much needed assistance in speedily reaching the high emin¬ 
ence in public estimation, which the importance of our specialty 
demands. 
