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ferent colleges who shall pass a post examination before them, 
the value of which would be so established that all others 
would soon become professionally obliviated. 
No time should be lost in having a bill introduced in Con¬ 
gress creating such a body and investing them with authority 
to hold examinations twice a year, say one in Chicago for 
Western schools and in Washington for those in the East. I 
think such a bill would receive little or no opposition provi¬ 
ding it did not directly deprive schools of* the graduating 
power already invested in them. 
The value of the profession to the nation has too recently 
been demonstrated not to receive the support of the govern¬ 
ment when it can be positively asserted that the success 
or non-success of the cattle industries of this vast country 
depend very largely upon the proficiency of its veterinarians, 
saying nothing about the relationship of the profession to 
public health in regard to the consumption of meat and milk. 
I have not had the time to give this subject that it so just¬ 
ly claims, but short as this paper is and crude as the ideas 
and comments are I trust they will be the means of starting a 
discussion that may lead to something tangible. 
THE RELATIONSHIP EXISTING BETWEEN HUMAN AND 
BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS, 
By Prof. E. F. Brush, M.D, Mount Vernon, N. Y. 
(A paper read before the New York Academy of Medicine, April 18 , 1889 ). 
A strangely interesting phase of the study of phthisis is 
that presented by the disease in living beings. In the human 
race the afflicted are generally the most attractive members 
of society. Scrofulous females are usually among the most 
beautiful people we meet, with their transparent complexion 
and large, languid eyes, while the scrofulous males are either 
intensely intellectual or correspondingly erotic. The same 
rule holds good in the bovine race ; the small inbred tuber¬ 
cular Jersey is in appearance the most attractive of any of the 
cow tribe, while even the common scrub cow that is tuber- 
