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In some dogs we find an idiosyncrasy against the use of Fow¬ 
ler s solution due to the lavender in its composition, and in 
these cases we employ the liquor acidum arseniosum, the dose 
being the same. With this treatment we have cured a fair pro¬ 
portion of cases, but, alas, far too few. The great trouble in the 
treatment of chorea is in the length of time it takes to effect a 
cure, the owner usually becoming disheartened at the slow rate 
of improvement and ordering the animal destroyed. Many 
cases will take from three to six months to effect a cure. In 
others the twitchings may persist for a year and then disappear. 
We are anxiously looking for the discovery of an anti¬ 
toxin which shall be both preventive and curative, and be a 
much more powerful weapon than any we are able to employ at 
present in combating this disease. 
NEW YORK STATE VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
INAUGURATION ADDRESS BY PROFESSOR JAMES LAW, SEPT. 24, 1896. 
It seems desirable to say a few words to you collectively in view of the inauguration of 
a new enterprise in America—a State Veterinary College. As an English-speaking 
people we have been especially influenced by English example in shaping many of our in¬ 
stitutions, and in none more so than in those to which veterinary education has been com¬ 
mitted. It has been a crowning glory of the Anglo-Saxon race that they have suspected 
and frowned upon a too paternal government. In Europe and America, in South Africa, 
Australia and New Zealand, a prominent aim has been to restrict the functions of govern¬ 
ment to the protection of the citizen in his personal rights of property and conscience, in 
his lawful business enterprises, and his pursuit of pleasure. Education, it is true, came in 
for a constantly increasing share of national control and support, but this was for long 
mainly along classic lines, and was a legacy which came down to us from the early mon- 
astic and ecclesiastical schools. For purely secular education, money was slowly and 
grudgingly allowed, with a wholesome dread of the evils to be apprehended from class 
legislation. lhat instinct of evenhanded justice which demanded for the citizen a trial by 
a jury of his peers, naturally recoiled from any proposition which looked like an appro¬ 
priation of public money for the creation or benefit of any special class or guild. It is 
only in recent years that the manifest value to the nation, in its competition with other 
nations, of the highest knowledge and skill in science and arts, has led to the founding 
and support of technical, and professional schools of all kinds, to keep the country in the 
forefront of the race of civilization and progress. 
As the Anglo-Saxon peoples have gradually awakened to the need of government 
provision for technical education, those branches which seemed to be ot the greatest 
material value were naturally the first and most liberally dealt with, while those in which 
the prizes were smaller, or the triumphs less striking, and competition less close, were 
still left to shift for themselves. 
In Great Britain there has never been a State Veterinary College, and the four exist¬ 
ing schools have been all founded by private enterprise and conducted independently of 
state grants. 
In America, as in England, the veterinary schools have been private ventures, and 
