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referred to, and which is usually fatal. A modified form of 

 this disease may occur from eating other kinds of diseased 

 meat. In fact, all the carnivorous animals suffer the same 

 consequences from such a diet. A man in Connecticut 

 recently lost five cats from eating the flesh from one of these 

 creatures that had died of charbon only a few hours pre- 

 vious. The skin had been removed when I saw it, but I 

 admonished him sharply for so doing, and told him never to 

 repeat the experiment, but to bury such a carcass at once. 

 He failed to do so in this case, and though the man escaped 

 inoculation, yet his pet cats and the neighboring dogs conse- 

 quently suffered the pangs of death. The majority of deaths 

 from this whole class of diseases are very sudden, and often 

 without a noticeable premonition. In such cases we are very 

 liable to slaughter a veal calf in that critical moment, when, 

 if it had not been killed, it might have died a few hours 

 later from this insidious malady. This perhaps may account 

 for the sudden and mysterious sickness which not unfrequeutly 

 follows a dinner of roast veal. And cases are not wantino- 

 where even death has occurred from eating such diseased 

 meat, which was supposed to be perfectly harmless, but 

 which on being fed to cats and dogs, by way of experiment, 

 produced the same result. 



I need not multiply instances to show the necessity for the 

 diffusion of veterinary knowledge among the people. But 

 this end can never be attained until our public institutions 

 shall teach the same as a regular branch of instruction. I do 

 not wish to be understood that I would turn all of our 

 colleges in the land into veterinary schools, and thus flood 

 the world with doctors ; but I do most emphatically urge that 

 our agricultural colleges shall teach the general principles of 

 veterinary science, and thus take a front rank in our educa- 

 tional advancement. This age of progressive agriculture 

 demands that we should instruct our pupils in every depart- 

 ment of rural economy ; and therefore the veterinary art 

 cannot longer be neglected. It should be a prominent 

 feature in our agricultural education, and thus afford every 

 youth in the land who intends to become a farmer an 

 opportunity to acquaint himself with the general principles of 

 the veterinary art. We are in want of more such men in this 



