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EXTRACTS. 
EXTRACTS. 
VETERINARY FRAUDS. 
By George W. Rust. 
Heretofore very little attention has been given in this country 
to the subject of veterinary science. Our live stock, or a very 
large proportion of it, was maintained in a condition very 
nearly approaching a state of nature, and there was as little risk of 
disease as could be imagined. It cost little to produce or raise 
stock, and the loss of an animal now and then seemed a small 
matter. There was plenty of room; not many animals were 
kept on a limited area or in same enclosures, and there was small 
chance for disease spreading from one to another. It. was only 
in exceptional cases that there were animals of exceptional value, 
for the protection of which special solicitude was felt; and so, 
nature was generally relied upon in all cases of animal ailment, 
and very little encouragement existed for any one to make a 
careful and scientific study of animal diseases. But of late years 
these conditions are undergoing some change. The conditions 
under which animals are maintained are becoming year by year 
more artificial; their production is recognized as a clear matter 
of expense, and their maintenance a positive source of profit, and 
the control and treatment of disease is recognized on all sides as a 
matter of decided importance. There is never a demand but 
what there is soon something with which to supply it; and the 
demand for professional treatment of live stock will undoubtedly 
very soon produce a supply of veterinary practitioners in num¬ 
bers at least fully up to the requirements. Quite a number v.f 
the agricultural colleges are giving attention to the subject, 
maintain professors of veterinary science, and give a full course 
of instruction in this important department. But the field, it 
seems, is not to be entirely left to these public institutions, but 
private veterinary colleges are springing up in the large cities 
also, from whose precincts the country will soon be favored with 
a cloud of veterinary graduates. 
These men are to go out and take people’s money and to give 
