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- 
