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and be allowed to take its seat in the council of those who up 
to the present have considered they alone were able to discuss 
matters relating to the public health. 
I think I need hardly say that whenever there has been a 
fight that had for its object the advancement of the veterinary 
profession I have always been on the fighting side, though not 
always successful, and often getting more abuse than praise, 
the same as when I was successful in getting the first bill 
passed legalizing the practice of the profession in this State. 
I was told I had done more harm than good. I advised them to 
wait and be satisfied that the thin edge of the wedge was in. 
There was nothing to prevent them driving it as far as they 
could, and look where it has been driven to now. Is there any 
State that has a better law regulating the practice of veterinary 
medicine? I have one idea of this life, and that is, if you can¬ 
not get all you want, take what you can get, and wait for the 
rest. Yours very truly, 
W. H. Pendry, D.V.S. 
MAEEEIN VINDICATED. 
Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb, 12, 1897. 
Editors American Veterinary Review : 
On the 19th of November, 1896, one of the officers of the 
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, of 
which I am Veterinary Inspector for Brooklyn, brought to my 
hospital, in harness, a gray gelding, the same being in his opin¬ 
ion a suspicious case of glanders. 
The history of the case as given to me by the driver was to 
the effect that for the past six months there had been a con¬ 
tinuous discharge from the near nostril, and that the horse had 
been professionally treated, during that time, for catarrh. Also, 
that the Veterinary Inspectors of the Board of Health had pre¬ 
viously pronounced the animal as non-glandered, and with their 
sanction the same was put to work on our public streets, thus 
necessarily coming in contact with scores of horses every day, 
and who can estimate the final result of such inexcusable care¬ 
lessness ? 
Upon thorough and minute examination, I pronounced the 
case one of chronic glanders, and the driver was instructed to 
return the horse to the stable of the owner, with the directions 
to have him isolated as a dangerous animal, awaiting the action 
of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 
O11 the afternoon of the same day the case was examined by 
