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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
for both. The medical and veterinary professions are insepar¬ 
ably connected with each other, and the bonds are growing’ 
closer all the time. We all know that many diseases are inter- 
communicable, and in many cases the medical profession have 
to call on the veterinarian to aid him. If the profession is re¬ 
duced to a trade, if it is made merely a matter of dollars and 
cents, it will ruin the profession ; it will have fifty years work 
to do over again, and the highest and best of the profession 
ivould be lost; if every one looked at it in that light we would 
have no scientists; we would have no advance; we would be at 
a standstill. 
Dr. Lee did not think the profession should be surrounded 
by sentimental ideas any more than the business of a banker, 
lawyer, analytical chemist, or a sanitary plumber. He did not 
mean to lower it, but other businesses besides it have done 
good to the people in general. The discussion began by 
criticisms on business methods ; there was a popular predjudice 
against innovations of any kind. The man who introduced any 
innovation meets with opposition. In other businesses they are 
not hampered with codes, and he feels he should not be dictated 
to as to how he should conduct his business. 
Dr. Blackwood said if Dr. Lee wishes to compare it with 
other professions, let him do so, and he will find that even the 
blacksmiths have their code ; if he does not believe it, let him 
join the union and see. 
Dr. Howard said that veterinary practice cannot be com¬ 
pared with business, because the science is not a positive one. 
If a person is driving along the street and his wheels get caught 
in the car-tracks, and he has a “smash up,” he can go to a 
blacksmith, who will tell him how long, and what it will cost to 
have it repaired. On the other hand, if his horse goes lame, it 
is often hard to tell where the lameness is, not to speak of the 
cost of repair; he may have to call in some brother practitioner 
in consultation. The second may have an entirely different 
opinion from the first. What would be the result without 
“ethics?” Dr. Lee had compared the veterinary profession 
