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him to die ignorantly cared for. Do you tell me that Nature 
provides proper remedies ? Is not the argument equally true 
of your child ? Besides, you have taken him out of Nature 
. and his life is artificial, and you are bound in all honor to 
meet this changed condition and see that he is intelligently 
treated by men who are properly educated and are fitted to 
act in such an emergency. The body of the horse, as of all 
domestic animals, is but the body of the man, and is subject 
to all his ills and sicknesses, and, in my judgment, his cure 
involves greater knowledge and greater skill on the part of 
the physician, for he cannot assist himself nor in any way aid 
his doctor, and yet you lend no hand and give no encourage¬ 
ment towards changing the condition of these schools or as¬ 
sisting them by your money or your presence. 
Did you ever think what interests are at stake in this 
matter and how much money is also involved in a proper 
consideration of the questions before us ? It seems to me at 
times that I must be under some misapprehension about this 
whole question, for I cannot conceive that there should be 
such indifference to proper veterinary education as seems to 
exist the country over, if we take into consideration for a 
moment the terrible sanitary interests involved, touching as 
they do our homes and our families. The Department of 
Agriculture has as its most important bureau the Bureau of 
Animal Industry. $500,000 was appropriated by Congress 
and expended by this Bureau, in 1887, for the extirpation of 
pleuro-pneumonia among cattle, and I assume that similar 
amounts are used every year for this and kindred purposes. 
Congress has enacted a wide-reaching statue for the suppres¬ 
sion of contagious and*infectious diseases among live stock, 
and has established strict quarantine laws in so far as it has 
the power. The State of New York has passed equally strict 
laws on this subject, and authorizes the Govenor to employ 
competent veterinary surgeons to maintain quarantine. Ohio, 
Oregon, Missouri, Indiana, South Carolina, Massachusetts, 
Nevada, and, in fact, all the States, in one form or another, 
have enacted stringent laws to prohibit the bringing of dis¬ 
eased animals into the State, and for the restraint and sup- 
