34 DADD'S VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERY. 
of the Western States, a malady known as ‘ milk-sickness,” on 
trembles, afflicting both man and beast, sometimes prevails, at- 
tended with such disastrous results that many farmers have often 
been compelled to abandon the old homestead in view of sevking 
a location where there was some prospect of enjoying iramupnitj 
from the pest. 
Hog cholera, or pleuro-pneumonia, ‘among swine) has iften 
slain its millions and tens of millions. Contagious yphus pre 
vails, and puerperal fever has carried off hundreds cf thousapiis 
of our best stock. Apoplexy, softening of the brain, dropsy of 
the brain, are just as prevalent here as in England. Abortion, 
or miscarriage, is fearfully on the increase. Diseases of climate 
and spontaneous origin are constantly occurring. In fact, to 
shorten a lengthy story, there is scarcely any disease known ts 
the veterinarians of the Old World that has not prevailed in the 
New. The mere mention of these matters should at once arouse 
stock-owners to a sense of duty to themselves and their domestie 
animals. 
We must have educated veterinary surgeons for the treatment 
of diseases peculiar to the live stock of this country. It is a mat- 
ter of national policy, a work of benevolence; and should we 
take a business view of the affair, it is a cert and dollar enter- 
prise that will surely pay. 
We want schools and colleges in this country, where the young 
men of America can acquire a republicca veterinary education 
so that in the era before us, the people in this country can employ 
the graduates of their own schools, endowed and fostered by thein 
own enterprise and industry. Some persons have an idea that 
Veterinary science can only be acquired under the banner of roy- 
alty, but this is a great mistake. I am aware that the people of 
this country have been so absorbed in promoting its growth and 
developing its resources, that there has been but little chance for 
great scientific achievement in our calling, yet within the pae 
few years some of the most learned of our profession, educated 
under the auspices of royalty and aristocracy, have been amazed 
at the contributions to science furnished by a few devoted men in 
this -ountry that never saw the inside of an European college. 
As a national affair, therefore, it should be the pride of evere 
American citizen fo put his shoulder to the wheel for tne purpose 
just indicated, for the enterprise will snrelv redound to the hone 
