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interesting if one would take the time to compile it. It has 
been a great pleasure to be at this meeting, and I thank you for 
your attention. 
But, Mr. Chairman, I will detain you for one word more : I 
believe that I have forgotten myself as a factor in the making 
of the history of American veterinary medicine. When, as an 
assistant of Dr. Joseph Leidy, the anatomist, and Dr. D. Hayes 
Agnew, the surgeon, I took their advice ; that the study of vet¬ 
erinary medicine opened up a field for a more interesting and 
broader scientific life than the routine of a simple human prac¬ 
titioner and prepared myself to found the \ eterinary Depart¬ 
ment of the University of Pennsylvania; when I broadened my 
conception of animal life by becoming a comparative anatomist 
instead of remaining a simple human anatomist; when I worked 
during two years in the laboratories of Nocard, Chauveau and 
Pasteur, Virchow and Koch, and Ercolani, familiarizing myself 
with the bacteriological studies which led to our present knowl¬ 
edge of tuberculosis, glanders, and the other contagious diseases; 
when, as a teacher for twenty years I found that my most interest¬ 
ing teacher and my most valued knowledge came from my study of 
Comparative Physiology, Pathology and Hygiene ; finally, when 
I added the diverse scientific knowledge, given me by my study 
of veterinary medicine, to the knowledge of human medicine 
which I had acquired at the University of Pennsylvania, and in 
fifteen years of human practice, and had had the experience of 
fifteen years as a Chief Medical Officer of the National Guard 
of Pennsylvania, in which I had charge of such bodies of men 
as the thousands remaining in the Conemaugh Valley after the 
Johnstown flood, and y^oo troops of Pennsylvania during the 
Homestead riots ’. then, gentlemen, I was amused, though some 
of my friends were annoyed, last year when I became the best 
advertised and the most universally damned Hoise Doctoi 
in America. * 
The yelping of the jackal newspapers, playing upon the 
hysterical sentiment of the public, because they had no further 
sensational war news, or other exciting information to furnish, 
