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EDITORIAL. 
to recognize them ? Mistakes are possible; an unnecessary 
scare ” may follow ; but in the present case, if error existed , the 
mistake and the scare have produced much resulting good—if it 
had not been for their occurrence, the important and beneficent 
laws which have been enacted would not now exist, and the 
measures of precaution which are springing up all about us, 
would have had no being. And- again, are veterinarians from 
across the water infallible in the detection of contagious diseases ? 
The history of rinderpest in England proves the contrary. 
But, if we cannot look favorably on Mr. Simpson’s motion, 
is there not something else to be done ? There is no doubt that 
year by year contagious diseases are gaining a foot-hold on our 
continent. Pleuro pneumonia threatens the large herds of the 
west. Foot and mouth disease has entered, and may again enter 
our land. Tuberculosis, glanders, farcy are found in every quar¬ 
ter. Dourine, that dreadful disease of the solipeds, may appear 
in some of our large breeding farms. Who knows whether, per¬ 
haps, rinderpest may not find its way to our shores ? And to 
fight all these, to protect our immense national wealth, we have 
but a handfull of veterinarians, most of them young men, only 
within the last few years educated for this work. 
What we do want—what Wyoming Territory, Nebraska, 
Dakota, as well as all our large States, where cattle and horses 
are raised, all need -is to appreciate the value of veterinary edu¬ 
cation. They must send their sons to veterinary colleges, and 
must insure their becoming educated veterinarians. The time 
has passed when young men needed to go abroad to get medical 
or veterinary education. Let them study at home. There are 
veterinary colleges in the United States, which they can attend, 
and acquire all the necessary education, theoretical, as well as 
practical,and where, as Americans, they can build themselves in¬ 
to noble positions, which they can fill quite as well, if not 
better than foreign practitioners. 
OUTBREAK IN KANSAS. 
It is probably, only by degrees, that the profession will be 
able to come to a conclusion respecting the true nature of the 
outbreak in Kansas. Having published the report and the opin 
