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JOHN WENDE. 
crowd in everywhere ; associate with the ward politician, and 
succeed in winning the few positions offered by the city or state. 
They even make a run at universities and agricultural colleges 
and experiment stations to obtain scientific positions, and, 
strange to say, a few such men have succeeded. If everything 
else fails, they found a new two-term veterinary college and 
become professors. 
Such are the men who are rapidly filling our ranks. The 
West especially is blessed with them in abundance. The old 
quack without the diploma, ignorant but honest, is disappearing, 
and the modern quack with the diploma, but dishonest and a 
fraud, is filling its place. If a danger threatens our profession 
it is from this new enemy alone. Our wrath should be aroused 
and our energies should be concentrated in stopping these 
schools from committing further crimes upon the animal world, 
our growing profession and American civilization.* 
(To be Continued.) 
PYO-SEPTHAMIE IN FOALS CAUSED BY PHLEBITIS 
UMBILICALJS. 
By John Wende, V.S. 
A paper presented at the New York State Veterinary Medical Society. J 
1 he above appellation is used by Prof. Deickerhoff to desig¬ 
nate the disease to which I wish to call your attention. Prof. 
Walley has given the term specific arthritis, or synovitis; Prof. 
Williams describes the malady under the head of scrofulous 
ostitis, and considers it as scrofulous in its nature. Some 
writers view it as a constitutional disease, while others, espec¬ 
ially the German veterinarians of to-day, accept it as pyaemic 
or septicaemic in origin, and a sequel to or identical with om- 
phalo phlebitis. The disease has received attention from some 
* The continuation of this article has unfortunately reached us too late to be 
inserted in this issue.— Edit. 
f This did not reach our office until late in March—hence its late publication. 
