EDITORIAL. 
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Such objections to the new law as experience may have suggested 
since there has been opportunity for observing its working may 
also possess a certain interest and value, as tending to modify any 
enthusiastic anticipations which may have found their way into 
the minds of persons of a sanguine disposition in respect to the 
same matter, and who may be impatiently waiting the move¬ 
ments of their dilatory representatives in their several halls of 
legislation in other States. 
It is not our intention to indulge in any extended remarks 
touching the New York law. We at first looked upon the act 
with favor and anticipated good results from its operation. Since 
then we think we have seen good reasons for characterizing the 
measure as the worst misfortune that ever befell the veterinary 
profession, and that so long as the veterinarians of New York 
are content to submit themselves to the disgrace now fastened 
upon them, they can claim no sympathy or commiseration on 
account of the low standing of the profession of their choice. 
Their bill was subjected to a shameful mutilation ; the act, when 
passed, was condemned and thrown aside by mandamus from the 
courts, and a new act destroying the first is about to be passed, 
under which ignoramuses of all shades are to be authorized to 
buy certificates of proficiency, with which they will be entitled 
to register. What more may be necessary to bring the veter¬ 
inarians of the “ Empire State ”—the birthplace of veterinary 
science in America—to a keen realization of the disgrace and 
shame of the deplorable attitude they are at length compelled 
to maintain ? But a judge’s mandamus or a retail certificate, 
bought in the market, are not at all necessary for an aspirant 
to veterinary profit and honor. Every man that has ever 
handled a four-legged animal is allowed to register. It may 
be the man who has castrated a few colts, or it may be the 
man mentioned in the letter which we publish from one of our 
correspondents, who asks for virus for the inoculation of cows 
against tuberculosis —they all get recognition . 
This is the practical result of the law passed in New York, 
and from the provisions of which we hope our colleagues in 
other States will successfully labor to escape. No law at all is 
