EDITORIAL. 
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PRACTICE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERY IN THE STATE OF NEW 
York.” 
Approved by the Governor, May 27, 1888. Passed, three-fifths being present. 
The People of the State of New York , represented in Senate and Assembly , do 
enact as follows: 
Section 1. Section two of chapter three hundred and thirteen of the laws of 
eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled “An Act to regulate the practice of vet¬ 
erinary medicine and surgery in the State of New York,” is hereby amended so 
as to read as follows: 
§ 2. No person shall be entitled to register as such practitioner unless he be 
a graduate of a legally chartered or incorporated veterinary college or university, 
or shall hold a certificate of qualification issued previous to the passage of this 
Act, from a legally incorporated veterinary society, except as provided for in Sec- 
tion three of this Act. 
State of New York, > 
Office of the Secretary of State,) ss ' ’ 
I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and 
• do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole 
' of said original law. 
FREDERICK COOK. 
Secretary of State. 
Effects of Lightning on Horses. —The meagreness of our 
recorded information on the subject of the non-fatal effects of 
lightning upon animals has been a source of not a little regret 
among veterinarians, and new and reliable reports of recent cases 
will possess all the greater interest, as they tend to remedy this 
long felt imperfection. 
.Records are not lacking of the deadly effects of the lightning 
stroke, and there are sufficiently numerous reports of the simul¬ 
taneous and instant destruction of large numbers of cattle and of 
sheep. But our search for well-conducted observations of cases 
in which the traumatic effect of the electric shock has fallen short 
of the destruction of life, has been in only a few instances rewarded 
with success. Whether this is to be accounted for by the fact— 
if it be such—that in animals sudden death is the usual effect of a 
stroke of lightning, we are not in a position accurately to determine, 
though perhaps the circumstance of the greater exposure of animals 
in consequence of their usual unprotected condition out of doors, in 
the field or the road, will go far towards suggesting the truth of 
the matter. But, again, why should not the simpler and milder 
