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PROF. LAW. 
to place themselves en rapport with medical literature, that the 
veterinarians art not the professional outcasts they would fain 
make out, but that they are to be found as honored members of 
the American Public Health Association, placed on important 
committees, and treated there and in our medical journals and 
publications with the courtesy due to valued co-workers in a com¬ 
mon field. 
When medical men affect to despise the educated veterinarian 
we may rest assured that they are themselves little worthy of the 
title of physician. It is true that there are many uneducated 
men practicing on animals, and that this State has just legalized 
as veterinary practitioners all who have been prescribing for ani¬ 
mals for three years past. These we do not claim to be worthy 
of trust as veterinarians. Nor would we make such claim for 
many others who have spent two winters at a veterinary college 
and then gone forth with a degree. But no more would we pin 
our faith to our medical practitioners legalized under similar 
laws, nor to those who have taken a degree, as manv have done 
in our medical schools, after an attendance of two winter ses¬ 
sions. We have educated veterinarians as we have educated 
physicians, and we have legalized quacks in both professions. I 
would as little claim reliability for the veterinary quack as would 
modern scientific physicians claim reliability for doctors Swin¬ 
burne and Gallinger after the recent reckless exposure of their 
medical ignorance on the floor of the House. It may enlighten 
our political doctors and others to tell what the curriculum of an 
approved veterinary college is to-day. I take the French col¬ 
leges as examples. To enter one of these the candidate must be 
a bachelor es letres or es sciences, a prerequisite that our Ameri¬ 
can medical colleges generally dispense with. Then follows a 
four years’ course of professional studies, extended over summer 
and winter alike. It embraces physics, chemistry (practical, gen¬ 
eral, analytical, physiological and pathological), botany, zoology, 
anatomy (descriptive, practical, general and regional), exterior 
(form), data for ascertaining the age, forge, French, German, 
fencing, microscopy, physiology, teratology, materia medica, 
therapeutics, pharmacy, geology, mineralogy, clinics, general 
