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FEARNAUGHT. 
Its extension is affected by diseased stallions and mares, the 
insidious character of the malady in both being specially favorable 
to the transmission of the disease to remote localities, where it 
may gain a serious hold and wide dissemination before its dan¬ 
gerous character is ascertained. 
(To be continued .) 
THE VETERINARY SURGEON IN THE U. S. ARMY. 
By Fbarnaught, 
As very few, if any, of the members of the veterinary profes¬ 
sion outside the service itself have any clear ideas on the status 
of the veterinarian in the United States Army, and as I have 
seen the subject only touched on once or twice, I make this effort 
to place the matter in its true light before the readers of the 
Veterinary Review (confining myself strictly to facts) with a 
hope that it maybe the means of deterring some young graduate 
from committing professional suicide, and at the same time increase 
the probabilities for the reform so much needed by the army 
veterinarian. 
The veterinary surgeon who desires to enter the army of 
the United States in his professional capacity makes, application 
by letter to the Honorable Secretary of War, at Washington, D. 
C., and if a vacancy exist, and it generally does exist, in any 
of the ten regiments of cavalry constituting the mounted branch 
of the service, the applicant, providing he be a graduate of any 
college, is appointed instanter. There are fourteen veterinary 
surgeons in the United States Army, and these are distributed 
among the ten regiments already mentioned, the Seventh, Eighth, 
Ninth and Tenth (the regiments are designated numerically) receiv¬ 
ing two, while the others receive but one; this inconsistency on 
the part of Congress is one of the mysteries of the service. 
Should the applicant be appointed to any of the commands from 
First to Sixth, inclusive, he receives one hundred dollars per month 
and quarters—quarters mean house room, light and fuel—as com¬ 
pensation, but should he be appointed to any of the others, he 
