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ILLUSTRATED STOCK DOCTOR. 
Of late, however, a more enlightened course has been pursued. Many 
Of the agricultural colleges are paying attention to this important study, 
♦specially since the violent outbreak of splenic fever over the West and 
East from the introduction of Texas cattle, and still more lately from 
the outbreak and spread of contagious pleuro-pneumonia in a number of 
the Atlantic States. Owing to the low state of veterinary science gen- 
erally, and the disdain with which the few highly educated and thoroughly 
scientific investigators in the United States — mostly French and German 
graduates — have been looked down upon by those who should have been 
too glad to welcome them to the profession of medicine, and the esteem 
in which mere quacks and leeches have been regarded by the community two 
notable facts are made patent : First, the exclusiveness of certain puffed 
up “ college Dons,” who suppose that all knowledge must come from 
classic sources. Second, that the people at large, farmers and stock 
raisers, who from their habits and training could not be supposed to 
understand surgery or medicine, except in its simplest forms, have been 
thrown into the clutches of mere pretenders to anatomical knowledge 
and the treatment of diseases. Of late there ‘have been many honorable 
exceptions, until now nearly or quite all of these people’s colleges, forced 
thus in many instances by public outcry, are taking strong means to 
foster veterinary science, and make it what it should be, and really long 
has been in other enlightened countries, an important, as it is an honorabla 
branch of human science. 
There are many valuable works extant in various languages, upon 
veterinary science and practice. They will be of little value to farmers 
end stockmen ; all that this class can deal with must necessarily be only 
those symptoms that can readily be discerned, and remedies so simple in 
their nature that they can be easily procured and applied. In fact great 
care and attention should be given to first symptoms, as also to good 
Cursing. Discard all strong physics, and heroic treatment by purging, 
bleeding, and the surgery of main strength. Good care and nursing in 
the treatment of animais is now regarded (as it is in the treatment of 
human patients) as among the most important means of cure. Indeed 
with animals it is of the greatest importance, since brutes are only able 
to indicate the region of pain and disease by mute signs, entirely unin- 
telligible in the majority of cases to the ordinary observer. 
Of Diseases in General. 
In the description of symptoms, and the treatment of diseases, it 
Would be out of place here to go into learned discussions on the naturo 
And pathology of diseases ; so also it would be futile to dilate upon th* 
