But let us take a wider view. A journal, like a man, is known by the company that it keeps. Whose company does the _Zoophilist_ keep? Why does it talk of _Our excellent cotemporary, Humanity_--_Our valiant cotemporary, Le Médecine_--_Our excellent cotemporary, The Herald of the Golden Age_? Again, among the journals that it quotes, some of them very frequently, are the _Topical Times_, _Broad Views_, _Modern Society_, _Madame_, the _Humanitarian_, the _Pioneer_, the _Vegetarian_, the _Voice of India_, the _Herald of Health_, the _Rock_, the _New Age_, the _Journal of Zoophily_, the _Homoeopathic World_, _Medical Liberty_, and the _Honolulu Humane Educator_. This may be very good company, but it is not all of it the best company for a "scientific journal." Still, it may be better company than the American _Medical Brief_, the _Journal de Médecine de Paris_, and the Belgian _Le Médecine_. These journals, being veritable "medical journals," are quoted in the _Zoophilist_ with the most amazing frequency and at great length; which is a compliment that they do not receive from other medical journals. They are, indeed, as vehemently anti-Pasteur and anti-antitoxin as the _Zoophilist_ itself. Take what the _Medical Brief_ says:-- "Bacteriology originated in Continental Europe, where the minds of a superstitious race were further unbalanced by constant delving in pathology, putrefaction, and morbid anatomy. When it spread to the new world, it also became blinded with the revolutionary and fanatical tendencies lying near the surface in such a civilisation." "They say if you give a calf rope enough, he will hang himself. Bacteriology is equally clumsy and stupid.... What excuse can be found for the cowardice and ferocious ignorance which, under the shadow of the stars and stripes, resurrects the sentiment of the Middle Ages to protect the fraud, seeks to rob the individual physician of free judgment, and denounces him for failing to use the nasty stuff?" "All Continental Europe is suffering from a sort of leprosy of decadence, mental and moral. The spiritual darkness of the people affects all the learned professions, but more especially medicine." Such is the _Medical Brief_, which the official journal of Mr. Coleridge's society quotes incessantly, calling it "an American monthly of great ability and without a trace of the scientific bigotry and narrow-mindedness which is so prominent a feature in some of our own organs of medical opinion." Next we come to the _Journal de Médecine de Paris_. This is anti-Pasteur; the editor, Dr. Lutaud, came to London in 1899, and gave a lecture on "the Pasteur superstition" at St. Martin's Town Hall. From a report of it in the _Star_ we may take the following sentences:--