VETERINARY HYGIENE AND SANITATION. 
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pie for generations, I suppose, yet there exists even to-day the 
most profound ignorance as to the true cause of the disease, how 
it is spread, or the most effectual methods to adopt for its pre¬ 
vention or removal, although it is one of the oldest diseases 
known to medicine, and the more modern measures for success¬ 
fully dombating it have been in operation in sections of this 
country, and in those parts of the world in which it is of com¬ 
mon occurrence, and which have been known to the medical 
world in all countries in which scientific medicine is practiced, 
ever since such measures were discovered. 
Gentlemen, when we come to discover the immense impor¬ 
tance which the control of such a disease as charbon bears to 
the live stock interests of this Slate, there is no education—from 
a pecuniary standpoint—which our people ought to endeavor to 
mast(!r more than that of sanitation in connection with contagions 
diseases. So long as we neglect this, and with so few educated 
graduates of veterinary medicine, with diplomas from the lead¬ 
ing colleges of the country to help ns out, this disease is bound 
to claim its victims, and create havoc in its wake. So long as 
ignorance prevails the fakir and the charlatan are going to get 
in their work at the expense of the credulous stock-owner. Dur¬ 
ing an outbreak of this disease, we have but to pick up almost 
any of our daily papers to find in eye-catching head-lines, the 
liniment, or stock food, or condition powder advertised as a pos¬ 
itive preventive, or a sure cure for charbon, while at the same 
time that part of the scientfic world who are making special 
investigations along the line of contagious diseases and their 
control, are as vet ig^norant of anv agent that will cure it in its 
most fatal form, and anything that will prevent it except the 
strictest sanitary measures, including preventive inoculation. 
We would like to state in this connection, that there are several 
individuals who are extremely dangerous during an outbreak of 
such a dangerous and fatal disease as charbon. The first is the 
one engaged in the proprietary medicine business, who through 
ignorance of the true nature of the disease, but on the say-so of 
some one who has administered or applied his medicine in some 
