EDITORIAL 
341 
ifession was, if not quite ignored, at least denied a place among 
rued and responsible callings. But all this is changed, we need 
; say for the better. The Live, Stock Journal in the editorial 
erred to says: 
For every half dozen establishments where horses are bred for speeding, there 
uld be an educated and in every way a competent surgeon, to pass upon the 
wnnel of growing colts, selecting those that are formed to stand training, as- 
ling others to work they were formed to endure. The ailments of body and 
b in a lot of growing young stock, especially such as are under training, are 
,le to be numerous, and the highest skill is required to do justice to animals of 
lie. The same truths apply to cattle. In the fitting of herds for exhibition or 
i it happens, unfortunately, that some of the most expensive and valuable in 
lerd are, in one fitting, under the direction of an owner and herdsman more 
bitious than wise, stripped of their value for the want of a thorough review of 
ir capabilities, and tendency toward unfortunate results while fitting. A corn¬ 
et veterinary surgeon could pass judgment upon the tendency of females, as 
whether this would be toward abortion, upon feeding up to the show limit. A 
iat deal of blundering is done in feeding up, and especially by continuing the 
ted state during the year. The physiological effects of this are not sufficiently 
derstood by owners and herdsmen, hence, for this reason, skilled aid should be 
Dre generally available than now. 
How wisely this reads, and what force of argument dwells in 
( ese words, which remind the public of truths which have been 
L long ignored, and which even now may not carry the weight 
\\ which they are entitled, we need not say. But is the proposi- 
on contained in the same article, suggesting the best method of 
curing the end in view, viz., “ more expert knowledge, 5 well 
inceived or practicable % 
The provision for treating human ailments is altogether beyond the require- 
ents Perhaps there is no calling more completely overcrowded. But with 
ist sums invested in live stock, there are but a meagre number of those who are 
j spared to diagnose the ailments of domestic animals and treat them intelligently. 
! one-third of the graduates of medicine now before the public would add the 
lading veterinary works to their libraries, looking up the anatomy of the horse 
ad cow —this would be a very simple task, because the tissues are the same, 
Qd named in the one case as in the other, the muscles being in pairs as in the 
uman subject, and named after them-apply their physiology, the doctrine of 
igestion, circulation, generation, pathology and the use and action of remedies, as 
| ley have learned these things in what would naturally be called the higher, school 
I aey would find a field before them to a great extent unoccupied, certainly not 
rowded. The graduate in human medicine would have at once a position ac- 
orded to him in the new field, while, in the present state of things, the opportum- 
ies for preferment, considering the extent of the competition, are meagre indeec . 
* Italics are ours. 
