VETERINARIANS AS SANITARIANS. 
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VETERINARIANS AS SANITARIANS. 
By Claude D. Morris, V. S., Pawling, N. Y. 
A Paper read before the New York State Veterinary Medical Society at Buffalo, 
Sept. 5, 1896. 
Time and experience test the works of man ; and the high¬ 
way of progress is covered with the fragments of countless in¬ 
ventions. The creeds, the dogmas, the social relations of one 
age become the by-words or the antique curiosities of the next. 
Men do what they can, and coming generations pardon their er¬ 
rors, but judge their work as they ought. What is good lives, what 
is bad dies; this is the general rule.” We are living in an age 
that demands of every man the best fruits of his mental and 
physical energies to meet the exigency of the times. The clos- 
ing years of the nineteenth century is the ripening stage of the 
greatest minds that have ever lived. The abundant fruition of 
the strongest hand that holds the pen or the mechanic’s tool. As 
the months roll by responsibilities multiply upon the shoulders 
of those who think and work the hardest in the ranks of the 
professional, architectural, and scientific classes. The struggle 
is to reach the high peak of human endeavor. Never before 
have such auspicious opportunities for usefulness and preferment 
among its members been laid upon the threshold of our profes¬ 
sion as lies there to-day. The man of ability and thoughtful¬ 
ness readily appreciates the situation, who with willing hands 
grasps the rough material fresh from the sources of inexhaustible 
supply in the professional field, to mould and to polish the 
roughened stone into a character of usefulness, beauty, and per¬ 
petuity. A profession, that within a short time has been looked 
upon with an air of disdain and ridicule by men in other profes¬ 
sions, is now beginning to be recognized and accepted as a factor 
beneficent in the great problem of social economy. Thus it is, that 
which has been accepted in the past as the acme in the science has 
served its purpose well, but the onward tread of the wheels of 
progress refuse to accept as an integral the skill of the past, 
but on the other hand is demanding at the hands of the learned 
