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ventive and restorative medicine is a benefit to both man and 
beast. 
Prof. Wesley Mills, the able lecturer on physiology in the 
faculty of human medicine and in the faculty of comparative 
medicine of McGill University, Montreal, Canada, in an address 
to the graduates of the veterinary department of the university 
in May last, said beautifully and truthfully : 
“ Medicine is, as applied to man, no longer a system of blind 
empiricism, nor, as applied to the lower animals, a combination 
of that with farriery. The barber surgeon and the farrier 
are but landmarks in the history of the evolution of medicine. 
Gentlemen, there is but one animal kingdom, governed by the 
same natural laws, applicable alike to man and his fellow creat¬ 
ures, lower in some respects, in the scale, but sharing with him 
the liability to disease and death. 
“ Comparative medicine is the medicine of the future and 
the sooner that is realized the better for man as well as beast. 
Indeed, we now grasp the future—the present touches its skirts. 
Specialism, or division of labor, will be necessary, because the 
powers of individuals are limited. Some will elect to treat the 
lower animals, and some mankind, with even further subdivision; 
but there is only one science and art of medicine ; and all the 
various bodies of workers in this vast field should form but dif¬ 
ferent battalions of one great army fighting for the prolongation 
of vigorous life and the mitigation of pain in every quarter to 
which the power of medicine can reach.” 
Medical men and teachers in our medical colleges are every¬ 
where coming to realize these facts. The veterinarian of to-day, 
who has been properly educated, goes out from his college quali¬ 
fied not only to practice his profession, but to enter the best 
medical colleges in the land with advanced standing. 
How changed the relation of the educated veterinary surgeon 
of to-day ! The time was when, within my own memory, he 
was assigned a secondary or inferior place when compared with 
the human physician or with those of the other learned profes¬ 
sions, but now the well equipped D. V. M., everything else being 
