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ALL MEDICINE USED FOR THE CURE OF DISEASE 
IN DOMESTIC ANIMALS SHOULD BE SIMPLE, MILD, 
AND CREATE AS LITTLE DISTURBANCE AS THEIR 
ORDINARY FOOD. 
The present period may, with truth, be denominated the age 
of progression. In the mechanical arts greater improvements 
have taken place within the few past years than at any former 
period. Yet, unfortunately for our domestic animals, the vete- 
rinary art, which has for its object their amelioration, has, in 
the United States, been most sadly neglected, thus presenting a 
lamentable contrast to the improvements made in other depart- 
ments of science and skill. 
What are the causes of this prolonged neglect of a science so 
eminently calculated to constitute us “ministering angels,” to 
those who, though our slaves, have common feelings with us 1 
It is absurd to suppose that our agriculturists have become in- 
different to their own interests, for we know that they protect 
all other species of property, at least so far as they are able. 
Then why not protect our animals from the ravages of disease] 
Is not property invested in live stock as valuable, in proportion, 
as that invested in houses and ships 1 And if so, the present 
unpopularity of our art is not the result of its own want of 
merit, but simply that its claims have never been advocated 
with that degree of perseverance which its importance demands. 
“ The harvest is ripe, but the labourers are few” We want a 
few such men as Drs. Warren and Jackson to rescue this science 
from the obscurity which now surrounds it; we want, at least, 
their co-operation. Let them but follow the example of those 
indefatigable cultivators of human medicine in the old world, 
who have not thought it beneath their dignity to lend a helping 
hand to a sister science : among such men we find John Hunter, 
Sir Astley Cooper. These men may be classed among the 
brightest luminaries that ever adorned the medical profession. 
On their brows rests a never-fading laurel. Their fame shall 
linger on the tongues of men, so long as medicine shall be 
cultivated as a science ; and although their spirits have 
returned to the God who gave them, they still live in the hearts 
of their countrymen. They explored this fruitful field of re- 
search, and, through their dissections and experiments on brute 
bodies, unfolded principles which rest on a firm basis that can 
