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Pasteur may go on in his work and accomplish additional 
wonders. We believe and trust that he will, but we have also 
other grand opportunities before us, by devising and executing 
means for preventing the necessity for Pasteur’s treatment. All 
honor to Pasteur for discovering and demonstrating a preventive 
treatment for rabies m man, but is it not equally possible and 
desirable in many cases to prevent the disease by recognizing it 
early and destroying the animal before it has inoculated the man, 
or—as far too frequently happens when persons are bitten by 
really healthy dogs which are subsequently suspected to be hydro- 
phobic—may we not render a great and noble benefit to the terror- 
stricken patient and his family by determining and demonstrating 
the animal free from rabies ? Scarcely less terrible and loath¬ 
some, when conveyed to man, is the dread disease glanders, which 
of late years has become so widely disseminated among the horses 
and mules of our country, that we are becoming quite accustomed 
to hear of unfortunate men who have contracted the deadly dis¬ 
ease by handling affected animals; these accidents, in a large 
number of cases, being directly chargeable to the criminal igno¬ 
rance or greed of gain of some unprincipled empiric by prescrib¬ 
ing treatment to be applied by the owner for the cure of the 
disease. 
Human and animal tuberculosis (consumption), it has been 
demonstrated are identical, and transmissible from animals to 
man, and since we well know that this disease is widely prevalent 
in cattle and especially milk cows in crowded city dairies, the 
early detection of this disease and the prevention of the sale of 
the meat or milk of such animals for food, becomes a privilege 
and duty of the highest order to the veterinarian. Like benefits 
may be conferred by detecting trichina of pigs in the living ani¬ 
mal, and preventing the consumption of the flesh as food. 
In the attitude of guardian of the public health, the veterina¬ 
rian necessarily comes in close contact with the medical sanitarian, 
where the two must at times work hand in hand, and here at least 
is an opportunity which, properly appreciated, must unavoidably 
place us side by side with the medical profession. 
We can then be of service to the individual stock owner by 
skillful treatment of his live stock; to the nation by controlling 
