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EDITORIAL. 
dumb and innocent animal could talk, there might be a great 
amount of quackery exposed that now is in the darkness. Yet, in 
my practice I have discovered a great deal of cruel and barbarous 
treatment based on nothing to support them. It takes a great a- 
mount of study and practice to fully overcome this terrible evil— 
quackery. I think it right and proper for the legislators to enact 
laws to protect this branch of industry, for is it not a great benefit 
in more ways than one, for does it not save life and money both ? 
Then why not protect it? Every other branch of industry is pro¬ 
tected, but this one is under par. This is not right nor proper to 
men spending their money and time, besides lots of brain work, 
for something as yet in low standing in society. The time I think 
is near at hand when this will be remedied by our law makers. 
My claim as a veterinary surgeon I acquired with my own 
effort in that direction, with fifteen years of diligent study and 
practice, but if the law is so passed as to shut me off, or that I am 
not competent to prescribe for the sick and dying animal, I will 
gladly throw up the sponge. 
EDITORIAL 
REGULATION OF VETERINARY PRACTICE. 
With the reopening of the Legislatures of the various States 
of the Union, veterinary surgeons are again considering the pro¬ 
priety of seeking to secure from their State governments laws to 
protect them and to regulate the practice of veterinary medicine. 
Several of the State societies and associations have already set to 
work with this object in view, and the New York State Associations 
have within a few days also entered upon the same line of action. 
For several years past the veterinarians of this great State have 
made attempts to secure the enactment of bills in their interest, 
by the Legislature, but for various reasons have failed—on account 
probably of the divisions which have existed amongst the members 
of the profession. To-day, however, the chances seem to be in 
favor of success, for the veterinary societies and associations of 
the State have at last agreed upon the frame of a bill which seems 
