VETERINARY HYGIENE AND SANITATION. 
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Republican majority, he inspired a respect and admiration for 
his many qualities as an ideal citizen and candidate as to add to 
his reputation and future prospects ; and the search-light of a 
political campaign has demonstrated more than any circum¬ 
stance could possibly have done that the modern veterina¬ 
rian, educated, honest, ambitious, capable, and energetic, is a 
fitting aspirant for any position in the gift of the American 
people. 
We congratulate Dr. Hoskins upon the character of his or¬ 
deal, and, while regretting that he was unable to reach the 
coveted goal, feel that, having drawn the profession promi¬ 
nently before the country, in a most enviable light, reflected 
from his Own personality, we are fortunate in retaining him as a 
worker in our ranks. He could and no doubt would have 
served us in other respects through the opportunity of his po¬ 
sition, to the end of securing that ideal .system of municipal 
meat and milk inspection ; but he will be enabled now to 
achieve more in that direction than formerly through the in¬ 
creased confidence of the public in the profession which he 
adorns. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
VETERINARY HYGIENE AND SANITATION. 
By W. H. Dalrymple, M. R. C. V. S., Baton Rouge, La. 
A Paper read before the Louisiana Farmers’ Institutes. 
The trite aphorism that “ an ounce of prevention is worth a 
pound of cure,” is as true to-day as in any age of past history. 
Hygiene is the science ; practical hygiene, the art of pre¬ 
serving health. The immortal Parkes, the founder of modern 
hygiene, expresses it in this way : Hygiene aims at rendering 
growth more perfect, decay less rapid, life more vigorous, death 
more remote. He tells us, that if we had a perfect knowledge 
of the laws of life and could practically apply this knowledge in 
a perfect system of hygienic rules, disease would be impossible. 
