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ual and moral standpoint than hitherto attained among men. 
He furnishes invaluable data and logical deductions for the 
upbuilding of the most important of all sciences—sociology. 
Only by stricter methods scientifically applied to the growth 
of the race can completer health, happiness and longevity be 
insured. 
In the study of animals, veterinary surgery and medicine 
hint at the intimate relation of all physical and moral ideas. 
Why may it not become an important factor in teaching the 
sacredness and value of foetal life in human species, and assist 
in arresting the practice of foetecide so alarmingly in vogue 
that our homes are filled with wrecks of womanhood. Foet¬ 
ecide is the wholesale murder of infinite possibilities in the 
womb of the future ! 
As you leave the college to engage in the active work of 
your chosen profession, your enthusiasm will determine your 
lines of duty as gentlemen and as citizen of this republic. 
Your first patient is perhaps a horse—a most beautiful 
exemplification of vital forces. You should not regard him 
as a wholly dumb beast. He is stiffened with rheumatism 
engendered by overwork, over-feeding, and ammoniacal gases 
that surround him. Pray desist in your attempts to exorcise 
the monster with a bolus, or by robbing him of his vital fluid 
without first seeking to rectify conditions productive of his 
discomforts. His mute appeals are hints for better sanitation, 
better food, purer water and rest. 
Will you profit by his hints? Perchance your example 
may induce your professional brethren who have in keeping 
the families of men, breathing the foul air of school rooms, 
theatres, churches, and other places of amusement and in¬ 
struction, and drinking the impurities which flush our hy¬ 
drants, to unite with you in a common warfare for less cruelty 
to animals, for better hygiene, for more wholesome food, for 
purer water. 
In concluding, you will pardon me for recalling an illus¬ 
tration I once used on a similar occasion. At the old expo¬ 
sition building which stood on the lake front, not many months 
ago, there was on exhibition a small painting. It was visited 
