28 DADD'S VETERINAKY MEDICINE AND SURGERY. 
importance of veterinary science; but the probability is tha Con- 
gress will soon legislate on the subject, and before long we may 
expect to hear of the appointment of a Veterinary Surgeon and 
Assistant Surgeon to each cavalry regiment. 
There exists no earthly reason why our profession should not 
rank as high in America as in England and France. The great 
losses which are continually occuring among army horses is a 
monstrous and growing evil, and, in view of preventing unneces- 
rary diseases and premature deaths, the Government must organ- 
ize a veterinary corps. 
It is very important that our science should attract the notio: 
of legislators; for it bears a very intimate relation with social 
science, inasmuch as men and animals are subject to similiar 
diseases, which are communicable one to the other, and which 
often arise spontaneously, and are transmitted from first to second. 
For example, there is a disease which often occurs among cattle, 
known as “Anthrax.” It is a malignant disease, and many 
persons have lost their lives by absorbing the virulent “ anthrax 
poisons” from the carcasses of dead animals. 
A cutaneous disease often occurs among the bovine species, 
known as “ring-worm,” which affects the hands and arms of 
some persons who attend such animals. 
It is asserted, also, that the vesicular murrain, which at times 
prevails among cows, gives rise to the development of a virus 
which is often squeezed into the milk-pail, and produces very bad 
effects on children when fed on the same. 
It has been discovered that the little vesicles found in measled 
pork are tape-worms, in a certain stage of development, and if 
not destroyed by thoroughly cooking the infected meat, may 
develop the dangerous parasite in the human intestines, 
That awful disease known as virulent “ glanders” (spontaneous 
in some horses) has destroyed many of our race. A small por- 
tion of the glandered matter coming in contact with an abraded 
or absorbing spot on any part of a man’s body, will surely cause 
him to die the most horrible of all deaths; and the same remarks 
apply to the disease known as “ malignant farcy.” 
We might enumerate many other forms of disease which are 
communicable from the superior orders of animality to the in- 
ferior, and vice versd, but the above must suffice, in view of 
attracting attention to the value and importance of the subject 
