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Moreover, the butchers, the milk dealers, the creameries, woolen 
mills, tanneries, shoe factories, hat factories and numberless other 
.smaller interests and industries depend on animals and animal products. 
The protection and development of such interests as these are worthy of 
the most earnest attention of statesmen, scientists and educators. 
Second. The experiment has been tried in Europe of establishing 
veterinary chairs in universities and attempting to provide veterinary’ 
courses without the complete equipment of a veterinary school. Such 
experiments at Halle, Leipsic and Giessen have failed. The successful 
work of investigation and instruction in the veterinary sciences in 
Europe is done in separate veterinary schools, as at Berlin, Dresden, 
Hanover, Alfort and Vienna. There are. perhaps, three seeming ex¬ 
ceptions to this rule. In Berne, the veterinary school has during the 
past j^ear been made a department of the University, but its separate 
plant and faculty are preserved. In Copenhagen and Buda-Pest, the 
veterinary schools are associated with schools of agriculture, but each 
has its special equipment and faculty and this union appears to be ad¬ 
vantageous to both institutions.— 
If the veterinary sciences are dominated by comparative pathology, 
there is danger that the point of view of the veterinarian will become 
narrow and that he will not be competent to app^ to the best advantage 
the knowledge of comparative pathology that he possesses. This state¬ 
ment may at first seem paradoxical, but my thought is that it is neces- 
sary for a veterinarian to be thoroughly familiar with animals in health 
before he can treat them successfully or economically when they are 
diseased. It is necessary to know the breeds, values, foods, methods of 
rearing, using, etc., in order to be in a position to discover and re¬ 
move causes of diseases or advise appropriate treatment. This idea was 
illustrated to me by Professor Dieckerhoff, who said of a certain eminent 
physiologist, a professor in a veterinar3 r school, “He could teach 
veterina^ physiology better if he could ride.” That is, if this great 
scientist had possessed some familiarity’ with animals, he could have 
extended and applied his profound knowledge be3’ond the walls of his 
laboratom^ and lecture hall to animals in the stable and pasture. There 
is as much in the application of principles as in propounding them. It 
is not enough to have a set of tools, one must know how to use them. 
In spite of the prevailing popular impression, the veterinarian is 
more than a doctor of diseased and maimed beasts. And he is himself 
responsible for the narrow bounds that circumscribe his field of labor in 
the popular mind. In this country the title “ Doctor ” does not com¬ 
monly convey the impression of a learned man, but to the plain person 
it signifies one who doctors. Now, veterinarians have insisted upon the 
title of Doctor, whether conferred upon them by their college or not, 
and the result has been that veterinarians are commonly regarded as 
men whose sole business it is to doctor animals, and this is considered 
the single object and the end of their technical equipment. 
In other countries veterinarians do not covet the title of Doctor and 
it results that they are not regarded as members of the least important 
branch of a noble profession, but stand on the footing of their own. 
Partl3 r on the account of the narrowing effect of a useless title, and 
partly through failure to realize the importance of the subject, veteri¬ 
narians have not cultivated to the extent they deserve what might be 
