American Veterinary Review. 
MARCH, 1897. 
EDITORIAL. 
VETERINARY BILLS BEFORE THE NEW YORK 
LEGISLATURE. 
If a feeling has hitherto possessed the members of this pro¬ 
fession in the Kmpire State that they did not receive sufficient 
attention from that erratic body of statesmen known as the New 
York legislature, either in acts of omission or commission, they 
can at least dispel from their minds any such impression with 
regard to the present session—for, unless one makes an acute 
study of the proceedings from day to day, he will be unable to 
keep pace with the vitascopic rapidity with which bills affecting 
the profession in one way or another are poured into the various 
committees for consideration. These bills are of the most di¬ 
versified character—from the complete obliteration of the legal 
standing of the profession to the appointment of butclier-shop 
inspectors ; from the creation of a State veterinarian to the reg¬ 
istration of a neglectful quack ; from the transfer of contagious 
diseases of animals from the Board of Health to the Commis¬ 
sioner of Agriculture to the regulation of u bob ” veal. Some 
of these bills are wise, some are otherwise ; some are the work 
of brigands, others are the sly attempts of non-qualified men to 
receive special privileges by evading existing laws. The Re¬ 
view in February very thoroughly considered Bill No. 137, 
which sought to reopen the books of registration for a year that 
every sort of quack might become a registered practitioner of 
veterinary medicine, and we are much pleased to announce, 
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