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if the Colonel thinks it has the disease in what his ignorance 
calls a non-contagions stage. The still smaller number of officers 
appointed by the Treasury Department to establish quarantine in 
order to protect us from imported diseases has been composed of 
competent men, but too few in number, and without sufficient 
means and law at their disposal to take proper precautions. The 
contagious diseases are left for the States to cope with 
alone, each protecting itself as it sees fit, regardless of its 
neighbors. 
The first veterinary record made in the United States 
was made in Philadelphia, 1818, when we find in the 
registry of the Clerk of the Eastern District that, “James 
Carver hath deposited in this office the title of a book 
the right whereof he claims as author, in the words follow¬ 
ing: ‘The Farriers’ Magazine; or, Archives of Veterinary 
Science,’ containing the anatomy, physiology and pathology of 
the horse and other domestic animals.” Nine years later John 
Rose, a Prussian graduate, settled in New York, about the same 
year the well known Mr. Michener began practice in Pennsylva¬ 
nia. In 1851 a Mr. (J. H. Dadd, a self-named veterinary sur¬ 
geon, started a veterinary journal in Boston which lived but a 
year, to be revived again in 1855 as the American Yeterinary 
Journal , and the same year Mr. Dadd and several associates 
formed the first veterinary school in the country which, however, 
soon disappeared. The New York College of Veterinary Sur¬ 
geons was chartered in 1857, and up to 1875 led a feeble exist¬ 
ence, during which time it issued some eighteen diplomas. The 
Pennsylvania College, chartered in 1866, has continued its organi¬ 
zation, but without a regular course of instruction. Two years 
later the Illinois Industrial University and Cornell added Dr. 
Prentice and Professor James Law to their faculties and have 
given regular lectures. They were followed by Amherst (1869), 
the Ohio Agricultural College (1870), and Ames, Iowa. In 1875 
the American Veterinary College was formed in New York from 
the New York College of Veterinary Surgeons, with Professor 
Liautard, a French graduate, at its head. This school has steadily 
increased in value and number of stndents. It was the first rced- 
