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policy, and let him, without hesitation or fear, put down in black 
and white, in the shape of a certificate, a proper statement of his 
conclusions, and he need not then fear prosecution for ignor¬ 
ance or wilful misrepresentation, which, if they existed, would 
most deservedly bring upon him a severe retributive visitation in 
the courts, such as we are sure he would indeed mercilessly re¬ 
ceive at the hands of his brother practitioners in case they were 
made his judges. 
Experiment Station of the University of Nebraska.— 
As is well known to the majority of the readers of the 
Review, our colleague, Dr. Billings, was called to take charge of 
this work in April, 1886, the call being of a temporary character. 
At the business meeting of the Regents of the University, April 
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1, 1887, Dr. Billings’ appointment was made permanent at the 
usual salary paid professors; but, what is of more interest, the 
sum of four thousand dollars additional was voted for carrying 
on the work. 
It is to be noted, to the credit of the regents of this western 
university, that they have not fallen into the error made by some 
other institutions, of attempting to do something with nothing, 
and inaugurating a veterinary department with but one professor to 
do the work requiring quite a number of specialists. We can see 
the influence of our colleague in this, who has ever determined 
that he would never be contented with any thing or institution 
which attempted to do a thing directly opposed to the live-stock 
interests of the country and those of the veterinary profession. 
The gratitude of the whole country, particularly the West, is due 
the Board of Regents of the Nebraska University for taking this 
stand upon a matter of such vital importance. They have the 
honor of establishing the first experiment station for the study 
of animal diseases in connection with medicine, or even where 
the sole work is research and where teaching is not made a 
necessity, of any American university, and thus have been the 
first to lead to the establishment of the principle which marked 
the successful advancement of preventive medicine in Europe. 
The veterinary profession of America may well congratulate 
itself that this important work has been done through the in- 
