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with the spinal cord or bulb of the mad animal, as it was about 
totally destroyed (the subject having been killed days previous). 
Thus I was left without anything reliable to form a diagnosis. 
But the members of the family were greatly excited, and so I 
told them that for safety, and to ease their minds, they might re¬ 
sort to the only good preventive treatment known, “ Pasteur’s 
inoculation.” It was then that the family desired me to find out 
whether it was practiced in New York. Therefore, knowing you 
would advise me safely and cheerfully, I wired immediately. 
I hardly think that the dog in question was rabid. 
While I write this let me say a few words to correct a state¬ 
ment in the last number of the Veterinary Review, to the effect 
that- Missouri appropriated nothing at the meeting of its last 
Legislature for the State Veterinary Service. 
This is far from being a fact. Although this State is com¬ 
paratively quiet over her results in the line of veterinary science, 
it were ungrateful to allow the country to believe that she is 
backward in this respect. In fact I dare say that in the same 
length of time, and with as few veterinary workers, no State or 
Territory in the Union has done better for the protection of her 
live stock through science, and none have recognized more rapidly 
and more substantially the value of the educated scientific veteri¬ 
nary practitioner. Let me explain, and you and your readers may 
judge for themselves. 
In the spring of 1885 I had the honor of being appointed State 
Veterinarian under a crude and almost impractical law just en¬ 
acted. I worked two years under it and notwithstanding its very 
difficult sections, I had the pleasure to show, at three months in¬ 
tervals, that many cases of glanders, black-leg, etc., etc., had been 
successfully attended to as the nature of the maladies demanded. 
Nine or ten months of labor seemed to please the authorities, and 
they began to study the subject a little more closely. In the 
meantime your humble correspondent had about a dozen oppor¬ 
tunities to address farmers’ and “ agriculturists’ institute meet¬ 
ings.” There various diseases were discussed, and sometimes 
prescribed for free of charge in a friendly manner when no regu¬ 
lar veterinarian was in the neighborhood. All this was done under 
