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were also resorted to uselessly. I need not name all those treat¬ 
ments in particular; suffice it to state the class of curative treat¬ 
ments tried. 
As preventives, frost and isolation from the place where the 
disease occurred seemed of positive benefit every time it came 
to our aid. When it froze hard the disease stopped a few days 
after, whether the cattle were left where they took sick or not. 
If I moved the stock to healthy and dry quarters away from the 
grounds, (which I am tempted to call infectious), the disease 
stopped after a few days. Before I practiced this form of quar¬ 
antine, more cases died at each outbreak. Once twenty-one or 
two died of a herd of thirty. They were a mad lot. 
Possibly further work may lead us to much more practical 
and beneficial results. Perhaps drainage, for instance, will in 
this case, like in some well-known specific maladies, come to our 
assistance if we can present evidence of infectious grounds or 
water. Again we may find some means of disinfection practi¬ 
cable to some extent ? 
I respectfully submit this paper to my professional brethren 
for their analysis and criticism, trusting to meet fair judgrqent, 
and that some able scientist may sift the matter thorougljy. I 
present the matter in a hasty manner, writing from notes while 
traveling and having no work whatever on hand. Therefore, I 
beg some indulgence for the embarrassed literature. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
THE VETERINARY PROFESSION: ITS OPPORTUNITIES AND 
NEEDS FOR THE FUTURE. 
By W. Y. Williams, V.S. 
In whatever station or pursuit of life, it behooves men to'pause 
occasionally for a time, and make a careful reckoning of their 
surroundings; to look carefully into the past and consider the 
forces which have been at work ; then examine critically their 
present status, determining what useful or baneful effect this or 
that force has exerted, and in what essentials their present posi¬ 
tion differs from that which should have been attained or desired; 
