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process of the occipital and the upper border of the sphenoid 
being involved; even the internal face of the occipital towards 
the condyloid foramen showed signs of the diseased process. All 
the other organs were found healthy. 
VETERINARY FRAUDS. 
By Jas. Allbkioht, V.S. 
Heading the Review articles relating to veterinary frauds and 
bills to protect the veterinary profession, I thought proper to 
write a few lines on the subject now under controversy. There is 
no room for doubt but that there are a great many frauds prac¬ 
ticing. Some of these frauds have diplomas to show to their 
patrons. These I consider the worst of frauds. There is no doubt 
but they get them from some private institution very limited in 
veterinary teachers. Money bought the sheep skin, without study 
or much brain work. This kind of fraud is far worse than the self- 
made horse doctor that does not have ready tact for the business. 
The graduate should be one from a responsible institution chartered 
by the State, and fully equipped with an efficient force of veterinary 
teachers. The graduate from this kind of school will be fully 
prepared to successfully combat the diseases peculiar to the equine 
race. The self-made veterinary surgeon of the past was something 
that was needed, for there was no other way to meet the wants 
of the agriculturists. The evidence we have of some of the 
work done by the self-made horse doctors is very good. They 
have educated their minds with study and practice. They, as the 
graduates of a school, practice from a standpoint of principle, not 
of witchcraft and old sayings. The principles which they are 
governed by are taken from the records of some of our foremost 
writers on the veterinary art. Our country is making progress in 
this direction. There is no need now of self-education in this 
direction. We have colleges of a responsible nature that will 
produce veterinarians and not quacks. Let every American in¬ 
terested in the welfare of our stock, encourage these schools, and 
before long the quack will be something of the past. If the 
