BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
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veterinary medicine in New York State, the only organized 
body of veterinarians in it was the State Society, to which only 
two or three practitioners in New York City belonged. Throngh- 
ont the State men of all classes assnmed any veterinary title 
which they saw fit, and when the law commanded the first regis- 
hib 
tration of veterinarians, Patrick X O’Grady and an educated 
mark 
graduate from a fonr-years’ course in a German university were 
peers in its eyes. The practice of veterinary medicine was 
equally deplorable. Many graduates and non-graduates com¬ 
peted in augmenting their trade by the sale of quack medicines. 
By familiar association with coachmen and grooms, and liberal 
division with them of the money charged the horse-owner, vet¬ 
erinary practices were supposed to be built up. ...” etc. 
Following this statement it shows the progress that is being 
made and the efforts being put forth to purge the list of those 
legally qualified to practice of all who have not the right. 
No statement of the intended scope of the “ Bine Book ” has 
approached its reality, it having grown from an intentional 
pamphlet of loo pages to a very complete volume of nearly 400, 
and includes almost every subject bearing in any way upon the 
profession. Every State in the Union and the Canadian Prov¬ 
inces are succinctly taken up, and every aspect of the profession 
in each commonwealth is fully given from the law governing 
its practice (if one exists). State and local societies. State Veteri¬ 
narian, down to the prominent practitioners, and in the case of 
New York a very complete list of all registered men who are in 
practice at present. A list of veterinarians employed by the 
United States Government, in the Departments of Agriculture 
and War ; the tariff as it affects live stock ; rules and regula¬ 
tions of the Bureau of Animal Industry concerning transporta¬ 
tion of live stock and kindred subjects, including quarantine 
regulations of the country ; acts of Congress bearing upon ani¬ 
mal economy ; health and veterinary sanitary laws of the vari¬ 
ous States; the jockey club, its members and officers, with the 
rules of racing ; American turf congress with its rules and the 
rules of betting ; Steeplechase and Hunt Association ; National 
Trotting Association, officers, rules and regulations ; American 
Trotting Association ; Polo Association and its rules; Horse 
Breeders’ Association ; dog clubs of America ; transportation of 
animals by express, by railroad and steamships, with details by 
the various routes ; records of horses’ speed under every con¬ 
dition and in various countries ; rules of the road in New York 
