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knowledge on the subject of veterinary medicine in America, 
when he says: “ It is chiefly due to your enlightened views 
and self-sacrificing energy that THIS school of veterinary med¬ 
icine is already recognized as THE best in any English-speak¬ 
ing country.” Also in another paragraph he says : “ The ser¬ 
vices rendered by you in placing veterinary medicine upon a 
scientific basis, for the first time in America , will ever be held 
in honorable and grateful remembrance.” 
With all respect to Professor Huidekoper, when one 
takes into consideration that in other English speaking coun¬ 
tries there have been schools for a hundred years or more? 
and in this wild and uncultivated western continent there 
have been veterinary schools and colleges for twenty-five 
years or more, and the teachers of these schools, both in the 
United States and Canada, are men of an equal amount of 
learning, experience and practical knowledge and of years 
of teaching, it seems as though they ought to be able to put 
a school on as scientific a basis as a man with two years of 
study, no matter how big his head was, before he commenced. 
There is hardly a month but what some one reports a case 
that is very wonderful in some one of the journals that are 
sent out. Now let all cases be reported in a clear manner so 
that one can, in a measure, understand it, and omit the words 
quack and horse-doctor, etc., for there are many of the quacks 
that can discount the graduates. As a military veterinarian 
says, in an article in the American Veterinay Review. “ Let the 
so-called graduates pass a thorough practical examination 
with one of the so-called quacks, and they conld not get one 
mark in a hundred.” And while we hope any kind of a bill 
that would tend to elevate the profession, either in the army 
or out of it, will be encouraged, it is to be hoped, if the army 
veterinary bill does pass, that there will be a Surgeon-General 
appointed, who is qualified for the poaition by his work in 
years past, and not because he has got a political pull or is 
Chairman of some Committee of the United States Veterin¬ 
ary Association. 
“ A Quack.” 
