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powers that we may be enabled to see that each of these spores 
is an organism within itself, though communication with its 
neighbor may be essential to its propagation or development. 
We are striving to learn the why and the wherefore, the cause 
and effect, and with a proper knowledge of these diseases may be 
treated intelligently, practically and successfully. It is for the 
accomplishment of this end that animals, from the tiny mouse to 
the spiteful terrier, have been subjected to injections of different 
brands of germ life, and while they may be dismissed slightly 
damaged or sent to their last reward, the slight inconvenience 
is not to be compared with the knowledge gained. The veteri¬ 
narian to be abreast with the times must have in his medicine 
chest an anti for pneumonia, tetanus, tuberculosis, rabies and 
many kindred diseases. 
Disease is largely a problem of political economy and is 
influenced by the ebb and flow of human affairs. 
An era of prosperity greatly reduces disease, the people more 
readily recognize the difference between good and bad food, an 
adequate amount of rest, and more perfect sanitation. When 
masses have become thoroughly aroused and realize these to be 
essentials to health and longevity, then disease will become a 
brief infrequent reparative process. I sincerely thank you for 
your kind attention and consideration. 
No living germ or disease can resist the antiseptic power of 
essence of cinnamon for more than a few hours, is the conclusion 
announced by M. Chamber land as the result of prolonged re¬ 
search, and in M. Pasteur’s laboratory it is said to destroy microbes 
as effectually as corrosive sublimate. 
President W. H. Harbaugh and his associates of the Vir¬ 
ginia Veterinary Medical Association, not content to rest 
under their well-earned laurels in having obtained so much for 
their profession, not only of their own State, but throughout the 
whole country, in the legal recognition they so recently secured, 
are now striking for dairy inspection in all the cities of the 
State. It does seem that if such laws can be enacted in the Old 
Dominion that our brethren should take courage everywhere. 
