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while the arts of medicine, comparative medicine, and the other 
noble arts and sciences all aid in securing a bountiful supply of 
food, and guard it and its consumers against injury, disease 
and death. How intimate the relationship of art and science ! 
How beneficent the designs of the Creator ! 
Mainly, the inspection of exported and imported meats and 
meat-producing domestic animals intended for human consump¬ 
tion is performed by veterinarians. I do not like the term vet¬ 
erinarian, and shall use the more satisfactory one of compara¬ 
tive physician. The significance is more complete, just and 
reasonable. I have already made application to the Queens 
County Medical Society to receive as co-members, physicians of 
comparative medicine, and trust that at no distant day all medi¬ 
cal societies will be thus composed. Who are greater hygien¬ 
ists than so-called veterinarians ? 
Many of the diseases of domestic animals afflict also man. 
Hydrophobia, glanders, tuberculosis, anthrax and others belong 
to this catalogue. And similar work remains yet to be per¬ 
formed before our animal food supply shall have been purified 
to a perfectly healthful standard. Of these, Texas fever and 
hog cholera are the serious obstacles to food exportation. The 
Bureau of Animal Industry, at Chicago, alone employs more 
than fifty experts in examining samples of meat from hogs 
slaughtered for the export trade. This evidence of govern¬ 
mental care deserves the . highest universal commendation. 
This act is too noble to be tainted by a suspicion of want of 
generous reciprocity toward our food-product patrons of Europe. 
From England we obtained the Shorthorn, the Jersey, the 
Hereford, the Angus, Guernsey, Devons, Red-Polled, and many 
other beef and dairy cattle ; from France only four importa¬ 
tions of the noble Normandies; from Switzerland only one 
importation of the grand Simmenthals, and of other countries 
to the domestic animals I need not now refer. National spite 
is as simple as that of the spoiled child who refuses to eat his 
dinner from some fancied personal affront. If it were pertinent 
to this article, it might be shown of how much valuable animal 
