214 ESSENTIALS OF VETERINARY LAW 



one, and to look up a point in veterinary law one 

 must turn to the heading ''Physicians and Sur- 

 geons. ' ' 



Because of the essential oneness of these two 

 fields of work, and to reduce duplication in work 

 and equipment, efficiency demands that the two 

 must be under one administration. This does not 

 mean that the human physicians must be subject 

 to veterinarians; nor that veterinarians must be 

 under the supervision of those who deal with hu- 

 man beings. The head of the department should 

 be one who is most familiar and efficient as an 

 administrator in the entire field of health pro- 

 tection. He should not be a physician, nor a vet- 

 erinarian, nor an engineer, as such, but he should 

 be selected for his knowledge and ability in all 

 the fields, in general. The particular questions 

 arising in some special field he should be able to 

 settle if given the time; but in practice he will 

 depend upon those specially chosen for their 

 knowledge of the particular field. For example, 

 whether he be an engineer, a physician, or a vet- 

 erinarian, and a question arises pertaining to 

 veterinary practice he will leave it to the veterina- 

 rian in charge of that department except in so far 

 as other departments may be involved. If it 

 refers to both human and animal diseases he will 

 leave it for the separate decisions of the two, and 

 with those heads he will act as a harmonizer. 



171. License Examiners. Though it is true that 

 efficiency cannot generally be obtained by board 

 organization, there come special questions which 

 must depend for just decision upon the consensus 

 of the minds of several. Much depends in the pro- 



