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have no right to dispute authentic history when 

 recorded by recognized authority. We have peo- 

 ple that have never made any effort to learn 

 whether this condition is the same as they have 

 among the live stock of the old country, yet they 

 do not hesitate to make the assertion that it is 

 not. The veterinarians of America are not sur- 

 passed by any other country in the world; they 

 are younger as a profession. However, all of 

 our veterinarians of note have diagnosed this 

 as the same as the European condition. Not 

 a single veterinarian that we know of has made 

 the claim that it is not the same disease. We 

 have seen several cases of it ourselves, and, 

 from what we have observed, and from what 

 we have learned from the best European liter- 

 ature available, we can not see one bit of dif- 

 ference between this and that of the old world. 

 While the veterinarians of this country have 

 said that it is the same condition and offered 

 many proofs that it is as they say, we have 

 never found a single individual who has been 

 able to offer one good proof that it is not. It 

 is one thing to make an assertion of something 

 which you believe to exist and another thing to 

 prove it. We are at present waiting for the 

 proofs. 



It seems a shame that one of the most promi- 

 nent live stock papers of this country has taken 

 the stand that it has about this matter and stirred 

 up the antagonism toward the veterinary profes- 

 sion that they have. We have one consolation, 



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