THE VETERINARIAN AND THE HUMANITARIAN. 
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I have been impressed with the idea that the beautiful lines 
of the poet Burns, parodied to read : “ Man’s inhninanity to 
his dumb servitors makes countless thousands mourn,” would 
make a fitting motto for a humane society, and one which 
should be firmly impressed upon the mind of everyone, but 
more especially the young and rising generation, because the 
earlier the impressions are made, the more lasting are they, not 
perhaps as the outcome of reasoning, but as the result of im¬ 
plicit belief and faith in the maxims taught in early youth. 
There can be no doubt that one of, if not the greatest clog 
to the wheels of the progress of the work of our humane so¬ 
cieties is ignorance on the part of our people, and indifference, 
which is born of the former; and in order that the acme of our 
desires may be reached, in seeing the day when the physical in¬ 
firmities of those dumb but noble creatures which God has 
given us to lighten our daily routine of work, or contribute to 
our pleasures, have been respected and considered, we must 
look to education for the accomplishment of this great end. 
Where, it might be asked, should this education commence ? 
It is my conscientious conviction that the nursery is the first 
school in which the seed should be sown ; and that the cultiva¬ 
tion and fertilization of that seed should be undertaken by 
every school, whether public or private, in the land. There 
should be a grounding in physiology for the purpose of im¬ 
pressing upon the student the normal functions of the various 
important organs of the animal economy. . Attention should 
also be given to pathology, elementary if you will, to illustrate 
the results produced by a deviation from the normal standard 
of health, and the simpler causes by which these conditions are 
brought about. A somewhat simple but impressive course of 
instruction on the physiology and pathology of that system of 
nerves known as the cerebro-spinal, for the purpose of illustrat¬ 
ing the effect of nervous irritability, both direct and refiex. In 
other words, elucidating the phenomenon of pain, its produc¬ 
tion, etc. 
The education- of the youth along these lines, would, it 
