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EDITORIAL. 
It hits far above the mark, because its provisions ignominiously 
limit and obstruct, and with espionage thrown in, actually pro¬ 
hibit animal experimentation. It is a monstrosity because it 
classifies inoculation—and for that matter any injection—as a 
form of cruelty to animals. 
We know of the existence of abuses in animal-experimenta¬ 
tion in America, and the abolishment of vivisection in the public 
schools, with its deplorable moral result upon tender children, 
would find the hearty approval of the veterinary profession. A 
majority of us would even go so far as to allow restriction of 
vivisection in the many mediocre private schools and colleges 
and universities, where unripe professors are allowed to cruelly 
play with helpless domestic animals before a class of still more 
unripe pupils. But we must retain some places where the press¬ 
ing problems of the day in biology and pathology can be solved 
by animal experimentation, and the proper places for such priv¬ 
ileges are our renowned universities. 
As far as pure veterinary science is concerned there is no in¬ 
stitution in the United States where more extensive and valuable 
investigations in animal-diseases have been made, than at the 
Bureau of Animal Industry in Washington, D. C. The bill is a 
direct blow to this institution—charged by law with the duty 
of such investigations—and indirectly an assault upon American 
veterinary science, while the guardianship, under this act, of the 
“ three physicians duly licensed to practice and actually engaged 
in practicing medicine ” is an uncultured pretence and exhibition 
of hatred by some doctors having more gall than intellect. 
We admire the work done by our humane societies,—of which 
the writer is an actual member,—and we wish to see injudicious 
vivisection on our domestic animals abolished, but we regard 
this bill as a failure from its limitless and wild provisions, dic¬ 
tated by a wing of ultra-fanatic antivivisectionists. If this is an 
example of future legislation in this line, the veterinary profes¬ 
sion of America had better awake to the seriousness of this new 
difficulty confronting us, and take up this matter at our coming 
meetings. The veterinarian, to be above reproach, must be a 
