410 THOMAS BOWHILL. 
the young graduates. A young professional friend of mine to! 
me a few evenings ago, at my request, how the new law ha( 
affected him personally. The gentleman I refer to graduate- 
from the American Veterinary College in 1884, and located no 
a great distance from the metropolis. As a matter of necessity 
he has been obliged recently to meet in consultation one of these 
irregular practitioners, who behaved toward him in a very unbei 
coming manner, to say nothing of the medical ignorance dig 
played. This ignoramus is a legalized “registered veterinan 
surgeon,” he having complied with certain requirements of the 
recent Act of the New York State Legislature. It seems to me 
this is a great imposition upon the public, as well as upon the 
educated doctor. The legislative Act in question, puts the col¬ 
lege graduate of the nineteenth century and the illiterate, unedu¬ 
cated “ horse doctor ” on an equal footing, while it protects a 
generation of veterinarians yet unborn. In my opinion we are 
far better off here in-New Jersey without any legislation on the 
subject, than are the people of New York State with the Act now 
in existence. 
HOG CHOLERA, OR SWINE PLAGUE. 
FIRST REPORT OF THE WORK OF DR. BILLINGS UPON SWINE 
PLAGUE. 
By Thomas Bowhill, M.R.C.V.S,, Temporarily Assistant at the Experiment 
Station for the Study of Contagious Animal Diseases, 
University of Nebraska. 
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(Read before the Illinois State "Veterinary Association at the Convention of the 
Stock Growers of the United States , Chicago , III., November 11,1886.) 
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The swine plague has not been so prevalent or so severe in 
Nebraska during the past summer or fall as during preceding 
years. The doctor thinks that the severe weather of last winter 
and the extreme wet, cold spring and early summer must have 
exerted some mitigating influence on the virulent activity of the 
micro-organism of swine plague. Dr. Holcombe, of Kansas, re¬ 
ports the same favorable condition with regard to swine plague 
