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proceedings that they would be the first to cry out against, 
and most loudly denounce, in members of their own profes¬ 
sion, evidently considering veterinary so much lower than 
medicine, that it has no need of any code of ethics at all. 
Some of these gentlemen certainly have a very curiously 
perverted moral vision, to say the least, and where it exists it 
should be corrected. 
Last year, in this report, I made some criticism of the 
Bureau of Animal Industry, #nd since then I have had no 
reason for changing my mind, or retracting anything I said 
at that time, but the chief of the Bureau has taken the matter 
as a personal attack. I therefore prefer to make no remarks 
about it on this occasion, as anything that savors of a personal 
quarrel has no place in a report of this kind. 
Another question that has caused a great deal of discus¬ 
sion lately, and one which I would like to call to your notice, 
hoping that some day it may be satisfactorily settled, is that 
of actinomycosis. Is actinomycosis an extremely contagious 
disease of cattle spreading with terrible rapidity among our 
herds, and readily communicated through the beef and dairy 
products to man, causing countless deaths among the human 
family, even though the lesions in the offending bovines are 
purely local, or is it not? 
If these various communicable diseases were half as dan¬ 
gerous as we know they are, it would be a wonder that one 
of us was alive to tell the tale. Meantime, judging from what 
we see of the two diseases, both in man and cattle, I believe 
that tuberculosis is vastly more dangerous than actinomycosis, 
and that it is our duty as sanitarians to do all in our power to 
abate its ravages, both among our herds and in our own race, 
and while we should neglect neither malady, tuberculosis is 
much more urgent and demands our immediate attention. 
Another matter which always interests us at these meet¬ 
ings is the establishment of our United States Army Veterinary 
Corps. We have, as usual, a special committee to inform us 
upon the subject, and I hope its report may be more encour¬ 
aging than in the past. 
In conclusion, gentlemen, I wish to thank my colleagues 
