American Veterinary Review. 
AUGUST, 1895. 
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EDITORIAL 
Veterinary Educational Progress (?) in New York 
State. —During the past hundred years the science of veter¬ 
inary medicine and surgery has struggled against the odds of 
superstition, charlatanism and prejudice with a heroism that 
was entirely worthy of so just and noble a cause. Especially 
has this been the case in the English-speaking countries, where 
governmental assistance has been almost entirely withheld, 
and the self-denial and devotion to principle have been more 
marked than in any other land where it is now known. In 
America the birth of true veterinary medicine has been an 
event of such recent occurrence that most men of mature 
years can recall it with all the details of its gigantic progress 
from infancy to the state in which it exists to-day. Those 
who have taken part in the great battle for recognition as 
one of the advanced sciences have marveled at the wonderful 
growth of its ranks numerically; they have been amazed at 
the rapidity with which new educational institutions have 
sprung up for the special training of young men for the 
important duties that are constantly opening up to them, as 
well as the establishment of special chairs in the great univer¬ 
sities and colleges for special or supplementary instruction in 
the new science that has b^en awakened in this country. 
