A NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE. 



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Are you conducting this hospital for the benefit of the school, or 

 for that of the veterinarians attached to it ? Undoubtedly you say, 

 " For the school ! " Then why allow them to use the name of Har- 

 vard University in order to gain private practice ? Is such conduct 

 in accordance with medical ethics ? 



In this " Herald " advertisement, as well as those appearing in 

 other papers, you may read, " Calls for outside visits will be attended 

 to promptly by day or night." I may be Quixotic, but it is my 

 opinion that no one connected as teacher with such a school can, as 

 a professional, make such a use of his position. 



Again : Is it an honorable thing for you to cut prices, for ser- 

 vices at your hospital, 100 per cent less than the regular practitioner 

 charges / less than those your own graduates will have to charge 

 in order to make a living, or to keep on collegiate terms with other 

 professionals ? 



In this regard I would call your attention to the following : 



RATES OF CHARGES MADE BY THE REGULAR 

 PROFESSION. 



Single visits, medicine extra $3 00 



Repeated visits to any case — 

 cow, horse, or dog, each 2 00 



All operations extra ; no horse 



cast less than 5 00 



These charges have reference to city 



proper. 



" RATES OF CHARGES AT TILLAGE STREET HOS- 

 PITAL." 



Board, treatment, and medicine, 

 for sick horses per day $2 00 



Board, care, and medicine for 



surgical cases — horse, per day, 1 00 



Board, treatment, and medicine 



for dogs per day 50 



Board and treatment for cattle 



per day 1 00 



Examinations and advice at hos- 

 pital 1 00 



What is meant by " examination and advice at hospital " ? Do 

 you mean examination for soundness, for which the profession 

 charges $5 for each horse examined? In your contract with sub- 

 scribers for $10 per year you agree to examine ten horses and do 

 other professional work — in other words, you agree to do, for this 

 paltry sum, work for which any professional would receive $50 for 

 examinations for soundness alone. 



Gentlemen, this looks very much as if you were trying to run 

 the veterinary profession of Boston and vicinity into the ground. 



What would you think of a father who, after having taught a 

 son all about his business, and that son had started in business for 

 himself, should cut the prices of goods in this manner ? You would 

 say it was abominable. Should the son pay for his instruction and 

 devote three years of his life to learning the trade when he might 

 be earning money at something else, you would say that the actions 



