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W. L. WILLIAMS. 
contact or through the use of the meat or milk, are fraught 
with danger to the health or life of man, the physician who 
applies scientific measures to control or extirpate disease in 
man, and the great masses in close connection with these and 
many other human labors, all work upon a common ground, 
for a common purpose—human health and life—striving to 
vouchsafe to man his biblical three-score and ten years with a 
healthful body and mind. 
It is sometimes asserted that this or that profession is the 
most important of all, but each is vital, and it is as difficult to 
measure or compare their value as it is to fix a price on human 
health or life. 
Our ever changing social, political and geographical en¬ 
vironments lead us to view with equally inconstant eyes the 
role of each of the useful sciences in relation to mankind. The 
one which proves most attractive, under certain conditions, 
commands generally the greatest number of and most zealous 
workers, while equally vital subjects are progressing but 
slowly or lying wholly dormant, until the favored branches 
have been enthusiastically advanced to a point far beyond 
that attained by the other corelative sciences, until the har¬ 
mony of the whole is destroyed and the aims of the more 
advanced sciences are hampered or their progress impeded by 
the tardiness or deficiency of such branches as may from one 
cause or another have been suffered to fall far behind. At 
such times it becomes necessary to find sufficient, earnest and 
competent workers to revive and advance the lagging mem¬ 
ber and bring it into line with other useful sciences. 
During the whole period of human history probably no 
other vital science has been allowed to drop so far behind its 
associates nor suffer so seriously from a long and baneful dor¬ 
mancy as the inspection and control of the flesh and milk of 
animals intended for human food, until at last the urgent 
necessity of the situation has forced itself upon the attention 
of the civilized world, and the demand has gone forth for zeal¬ 
ous and efficient workers in the much neglected field, in so 
effective a manner that already much worthy and highly hon¬ 
orable labor is being done by a rapidly increasing band 
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