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W. L. WILLIAMS. 
Electricity lias mercifully swept out of existence the street¬ 
car horse and his attending veterinarian. Other inferior classes 
of horses are threatened by median cal devices. 
Intelligence, close companionship, beauty of form and grace 
of motion, attainable only in living beings, guarantees a per¬ 
manent place for the horse, and the passing of the lower types 
only enhances the value of those retained, so that the intelligent, 
competent horse, in field or onroad, in the carriage or under the 
saddle, in peace or war, is as highly prized to-day in affection 
or gold as the Bucephalus of Alexander the Great or the chariot 
horses of the Olympian gods. 
The permanency and increasing value of our other domestic 
animals is not questioned. The sanitarian treats his problems 
en masse , the general practitioner his patients in detail. 
If the sanitarian saves io animals with one gross act and the 
practitioner 10 animals by io separate acts, each has rendered 
the same service and should have the same applause. 
It is questionable if the deaths among dairy cows from 
tuberculosis greatly exceed those from parturient apoplexy. 
The monetary losses from spavin, ringbone and navicular dis¬ 
ease combined, probably exceed those from any one contagious 
disease of horses. More persons are annually maimed or killed 
by vicious horses which could be rendered docile and safe by 
surgical interference than die from glanders, anthrax and rabies 
combined, yet the control of the contagious is very properly 
applauded, while the amelioration of the vices go unnoted, is 
almost untaught and in practice rarely applied. 
In questions of breeding, selection, handling, feeding and 
stabling the veterinarian properly trained is capable of giving 
advice of inestimable value. 
But the general practitioner is a sanitarian of no mean de¬ 
gree. A human life is worth the same whether threatened by 
a vicious or glandered horse. 
The practitioner largely discovers and reports contagious 
diseases, sometimes without thanks from the sanitarian and 
with execrations from the owner. 
