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we have ever had to bear. I still hope that the feelings of the 
profession of our country may be so strongly placed before those 
who are the creators of this new movement that they shall modify 
:heir announcement, and place it in conformity with the most 
idvanced veterinary colleges of our country. There can be no 
Joubt but that with the strength of means and facilities that they 
nay secure in Washington it could be made the best and strong¬ 
est school in our entire country ; and to none would result greater 
lenefits than to those who shoulder its responsibilities if they 
vould rise up to the demands and requirements of the day. 
Briefly I desire to call your attention to the duty which is 
low imposed upon us as practitioners of veterinary medicine, 
o individually take up and experiment with tuberculin for tuber- 
ulosis in cattle, and mallein for glanders in horses. The work 
lone by foreign investigators, and the more recent work of ex- 
lerimentation done in our own country by the “Tuberculosis 
Commission of the University of Pennsylvania,” and the results 
f the experiments by Dr. Leonard Pearson, and their compari- 
on with the results obtained in diagnosing tuberculosis by physi- 
al methods makes it incumbent upon us to take up this work 
nd so thoroughly test its value that we may intelligently de- 
*rmine whether we can rely upon this as a complete and almost 
nfailing diagnostic agent for the detection of tuberculosis. I can 
ut think that certainly the results already obtained by the ex- 
erimenters warrant each one of us, and almost demand that we 
lall give it personal tests as to its value, and bring into this 
association the results of our work, that it may be placed upon 
-cord and used for the benefit and promotion of our calling. 
The experiments in the use of mallein as a diagnostic agent 
>r the detection of glanders, by Drs. Pearson, Kilborne and De- 
chweinitz, bring to us such evidence of its value in this very 
aportant direction that we cannot longer ignore the use of it in 
-termining those obscure cases which we oft-times meet with, and 
which history has recorded many where they have done wo'n- 
-rful damage, without any positive evidence, in so far as physical 
gns were concerned, that would warrant the destruction of the 
limal. Any one of us during the coming six or eight months 
