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ated and considered by legislators in their action upon the 
easures involving the discussion of sanitary matters, and as a 
cans of relieving the official executants of the law from the 
ijnst odium which is sure to be incurred by every man who 
ithfully performs the unpleasant duty committed to him, by 
aking its execution imperative and obligatory by law. For 
ample, on the 11th of September, 1884, a section of the 
mitary Code of the Health Department of the City of New 
ork was passed which read as follows: 
“ Section 185. Every veterinary surgeon who is called to 
amine or professionally attend any animal within the city of 
iw York having the glanders or farcy, or any contagious dis- 
se, shall within twenty-four hours thereafter report in writing 
the Board of Health of such city the following facts, viz. : 1st, 
statement of the location of such diseased animal; 2d, the name 
d address of the owner thereof; 3d, the type and character of 
3 disease; and to request compliance with the same.” 
Similar regulations may doubtless be found in other orders, to 
| > ^ is feared, ignored or violated, with whatever results may be 
pected from ignorance or violation of the law. 
r A case of quite recent occurrence may be cited, which is fairly 
: i istrative of the matter under discussion. 
i A veterinarian was called to examine an animal, in which he 
ijought he recognized glanders, but, dissatisfied with his diagnosis, 
\' owner called in two other veterinary surgeons, who derided 
H denied the first diagnosis, and treated the, animal until he 
! d, after a few days illness. The result was an uncertainty as 
the diagnosis, placing the first practitioner in a decidedly un- 
i atean t position, and a failure and error as far as sanitary rnedi- 
e is concerned. All this might have been avoided had the 
daration been made to the proper authority, who would have, 
dally , either confirmed or overthrown the diagnosis. The 
erinarian who neglects to obey a sanitary order, such as the 
| uired declaration, does injustice to his employer, to himself, to 
profession and to the community. 
Tracheal Injections. —In 1883, Dr. Gr. Levi, of the University 
1 Pisa, published a little work on the therapeutic advantages to 
