The Modern "Horse 



Doctor" and How He 



Saves Money 



By A. M. Jungmann 



This terrier is suffering from 

 a compound fracture of both 

 hind legs. He fell from a 

 fourth-SLory window. To 

 the right is shown a sick 

 horse. He developed pneu- 

 monia when a barge contain- 

 ing horses for the Allies was 

 sunk in the Hudson 



OXE million dollars is a fortune — at 

 least it seems so to most of us. 

 Yet animal surgery is saving one 

 million dollars a year in New Orleans, a 

 city of about three hundred and fifty 

 thousand population. As New York has 

 fourteen times as many inhabitants as 

 New Orleans it is safe to assume that 

 animal surgery means fourteen million 

 dollars to New York every year. 



"Oh, it's only a poor dumb animal!" is 

 a wasteful expression of a wasteful 

 thought. When the value of the poor 

 dumb animal is considered in dollars and 

 cents he immediately becomes impor- 

 tant. Science has discovered that ani- 

 mals are worthy of attention because of 

 themselves — or their economic value. 



The good old-fashioned "hoss doctor" 

 is disappearing and in his place we have 

 the veterinary surgeon. The man who 

 intends to devote his life to the health of 

 animals is a man of scientific training 

 who takes his profession as seriously as 

 does the physician to human kind. You 

 cannot hold yourself out as a veterinary 



surgeon any more than you can proclaim 

 yourself a doctor or a lawyer without 

 being one. In the Regent's Examina- 

 tions veterinary science is classed with 

 law, medicine, dentistry, etc. The 

 United States has twenty-two veterinary 

 colleges as against twelve ten years ago. 

 There are between three and four 

 hundred teachers and about three thou- 

 sand pupils. 



The American Society for the Preven- 

 tion of Cruelty to Animals has been 

 making an appeal for the protection and 

 conservation of animals for years. Un- 

 doubtedly it has accomplished a great 

 deal even when it has based its appeal on 

 humanitarian motives. But in New 

 Orleans, where the figures show that by 

 adopting more efficient methods, the lives 

 of its mules and horses are lengthened 

 and the city is actually saving a million 

 dollars a year, the Society has made a 

 direct commercial appeal for the rational 

 treatment of animals. Once the owners 

 of large numbers of horses and mules 

 were convinced that by better care they 



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