THE VETERINARIAN AS A SANITARIAN. 
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milk and meat supply occupy in the annals of tuberculosis. 
Hundreds of recorded coincidences of the past in the light of 
to-day add powerful and almost conclusive testimony to the 
origin of tuberculosis, and it commands us as veterinarians to 
be foremost in the sanitary field to awaken our people to the 
importance of more care and watchfulness of this hitherto 
neglected source of danger. 
The fearful and loathsome sight that so often has made 
our blood tingle throughout our body and our face flush 
with feverish excitement, lest we should be among its vic¬ 
tims, as we beheld the pitiable brute covered with run¬ 
ning ulcers of farcy or detected in the uplifted head and 
dilated nostril the ragged ulcer of glanders, whose bacilli 
is claimed to-day stands at the head of the list as the most 
wonderful generator and prolific in cultivation, that were its 
opportunities sufficient would wipe out in a few years the en¬ 
tire equine race, and add more real misery to our existence 
that few of us would be here to-day, either eager or willing 
t° participate in veterinary circles, or adopt it as a means of 
livelihood. The most exacting duty falls to our lot as sani¬ 
tarians in limiting the existence of this disease ; and the most 
imperative duty commands us in so thoroughly eradicating 
it wherever found that full security may be offered those of 
the equine race remaining as well as the protection of attend¬ 
ants and all users of public vehicles, waterings troughs, com¬ 
mon hitching posts and sheds, that shall add to your value as 
citizens in every community where you reside. 
The origin of rabies and its dread sequel in man of hydro¬ 
phobia lies within your domain, fellow members, and the spe¬ 
cial need of your services in every village and town may 
prove of the utmost importance at any hour. It specially 
commands you in every household where you enter, to be as 
equally confident on one hand as to the correctness of your 
diagnosis of rabies, that every opportunity may be afforded 
to those who fear contamination, from a scratch or bite 
already received, to receive proper treatment, as on the other 
hand that the suspected symptoms exhibited by the family 
pet are positively not those of rabies, and to afford convinc- 
