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with plumbers. Who drove plumbers into sanitary science but 
the medical profession ? Then he compares our profession with 
chemists. Whoever saw a prominent analytical chemist putting 
out advertisements saying he would do business for so much. It 
is the-same with prominent lawyers and theologians. All pro¬ 
fessions have either a printed code or an implied code ; most of 
us do not need a code to go by; we have instinctive knowledge 
of what is right and fair. Continuing, Dr. Howard said, we 
don’t dictate when it comes to the actual practice of the profes¬ 
sion , we don t dictate as to the medical or surgical treatment 
of cases; we only ask that a member should comport himself 
reasonably to other members of the profession. 
Dr. Lee said that in those trade associations where members 
have to work so many hours a day, a man is fined when he dis¬ 
obeys. In the veterinary profession if every visit should be 
charged so much, it would be a great benefit, but as things are 
now charges are not adhered to ; bills are lumped and contracts 
made, and until the profession advances to the point of having 
schedule of prices, until some arrangement comes he does not 
see why he should be charged with being dishonest. 
Dr. Howard: Dr. Lee says, “Until we have advanced to the 
point of having a schedule of prices." That is not advancing; 
who can say I should not give my services for nothing as a 
charity. It is not advancing; it is going back to have a sched¬ 
ule of charges. 
Dr. Ferguson was glad the subject of contracts had been 
brought up; when he first went to Cambridge, travelling quacks 
were selling their medicines to the large stables ; he did not 
know how to get round them. After a good deal of consider¬ 
ation, he went to the large stables and got a contract with 
them; they to furnish medicines and a pharmacy; he got all 
the way from $4.50 to $7.00 a horse. 
Dr. Rogers thought contracts make it much harder for young 
men to get started ; he knows where he might have got work if 
it had not been for contracts. 
Dr. Howard thought that was a good point; he did not see 
