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inspectors. By tliem and tliem alone was tlie disease cliecked and 

 eradicated. Take a liiiit from the past, and forget not, gentlemen, 

 that the New York College of Veterinary Surgeons of this city, has, 

 during the past six years, repeatedly warned both general and State 

 governments of the approach of this very disease, and we now warn 

 you of the necessity that exists for veterinary schools in every State 

 in the Union, and for a well-arranged veterinary department in the 

 army. ■ However neglectful others may have been, the ti'ustees and 

 faculty of the Veterinary College feel that tlie_y have performed their 

 duty to the State and to tlie public, and that, too, without drawing 

 one dollar from the puljlic purse. 



Mr. J. B. Lyman. — -Mr. Chairman: For one I feel grateful to Dr. 

 Busteed for coming before us and calling the attention of the whole 

 community to the importance of studying the diseases of our domes- 

 tic animals, and I offer this resolution : That we tender the thanks 

 of the club to Dr. Busteed, and ask him to leave his written remarks 

 wuth the secretary that the press may have access to them. Before 

 taking leave of the subject, this is a proper occasion for reminding 

 the community how little any of us know of these matters, and how 

 few we have .in the medical or veterinary profession capable of 

 investigating and mastering the secrets of this disease. As a nation 

 we must be prepared to combat maladies of this description. By the 

 law of our geography the animals consumed in the great cities of tlie 

 seaboard States are grown and fattened in places hundreds and thou- 

 sands of miles distant. On the prairies of the far west and south- 

 west, a bullock is raised as easily as a chicken. He is driven or taken 

 on cars to the richest parts of the great valley to be fattened, then 

 brought east to be killed and eaten. In passing thus from one section 

 to another he changes his herbage, changes his climate, his water, his 

 habits. Beginning as wild as a buffalo on the savannas of Texas, his 

 liberty is more and more restrained till he arrives in New York a 

 thirsty, battered, frightened, suffering, feverish creature, and in that 

 state comes to the shambles and then upon our tables. Unnatural as 

 this may be, the demands of o.m* advancing civilization must and 

 will be met, and as long as this mode of giving beef to jSTew York 

 continues we may expect to have wasting and frightful epidemics 

 among our cattle. Hence we need veterinary experts, persons 

 skilled in the anatomy, the necessities, and the disorders of horned 

 cattle. Just now for the investigation of this disease we happen to 

 have with us the best cattle doctor in England, and 'the Department 



