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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
America ought to make the care of its domestic animals and 
the study of their health conditions one bf its most important 
public departments. No excuse ought to be necessary on the 
part of American statesmen for introducing a bill to this effect. 
Let our own Government take warning. It has callously left 
veterinary schools in this country to sink or swim as they chose, 
and now, with a great war on its hands not yet completed, and a 
dreary prospect of a difficult settlement in South Africa, it finds 
itself relying on the help of private individuals, whom it has 
studiously ignored. We will do our duty to our king and 
country whilst strength remains, but that strength is not inex¬ 
haustible, it may give way at any moment. Veterinary studies 
are fairly well organized in this country, but there is an eco¬ 
nomic weakness which may develop into a calamity. Never 
was there such an opportunity for a comprehensive measure by 
a strong government. No enormous sum is required to put 
veterinary teaching in England and Scotland on a sound and 
enduring basis, and so to remove a grievance and deal out equal 
justice to the three kingdoms. But once let existtng institu¬ 
tions and their organizations disappear, and it will be very dif¬ 
ficult to reconstruct them. We say, long live King Edward ! 
and may he inaugurate a glorious reign by showing his appre¬ 
ciation of the labors of veterinary surgeons !—(Veterinary Jour¬ 
nal , London , January , rpoi.) 
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