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creased in size to their middle, and again became smaller as 
they approached the uterus. I think they were pervious 
throughout their entire length, although the channel represent¬ 
ing the vas deferens was so very small that it was difficult to 
follow it. The vesiculse seminalae were absent. 
MODERN VETERINARY PRACTICE. 
By M. H. Reynolds, M. D., V. M., Minneapolis, Minn. 
Read in the Section of Medical Education, Jurisprudence and State Medicine of the 
Minnesota State Medical Society, [une 21, 1899. 
It is not my intention to argue that young men should study 
veterinary medicine in preference to other professions. Some 
young men are especially adapted for the practice of law, others 
for the practice of human medicine and still others for the prac¬ 
tice of veterinary medicine, and every young man should take 
up the profession which he conscientiously believes to be the 
one in which he can do the greatest good for society as a body, 
and himself as a unit. I beg leave to explain one other point 
in connection with this paper, viz. : that I have preferred to use 
common terms whenever the technical term was strictly veteri¬ 
nary and would not be well understood by a majority of physi¬ 
cians in human practice. 
Young men are occasionally deterred from the study of vet¬ 
erinary medicine by a fear that they would not be so highly 
thought of in the community as if they studied human medicine 
or law or theology. 
I became convinced years ago that regardless of profession 
or business, providing it is an honorable one, men are usually 
given about the social rank and recognition that they deserve. 
If a lawyer or physician is uncultured in speech and ungentle- 
manly in manner he is ranked as a boor, regardless of the fact 
that he is a member of a highly honored profession. If a vet¬ 
erinarian is well educated and a gentleman he is recognized as 
such. I know plenty of veterinarians in this State who are so 
recognized and treated, and I am personally acquainted with 
