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which urges our young graduates in veterinary medicine to ma¬ 
triculate at a human medical college ? 
I may be in error, hut as the result of much questioning in 
my own mind upon the subject, I am constrained to give a ver¬ 
dict in the negative. I cannot conceive it otherwise than as a 
poor compliment to their first alma mater , and as proving a want 
of appreciation of their knowledge and their ability, and of the 
real importance of their profession. If I am right, it is a step 
which ought to be discouraged, and if possible, checked, or the 
veterinary profession must for years to come fail to maintain, as 
it failed in times past to acquire, the position it ought to occupy, 
and suffer itself to be thrown back to its old ignoble place in pub¬ 
lic appreciation. 
The past experience of the profession in Europe, whatever 
faults and misdirections may have characterized it, may always 
be advantageously studied by the New World. Let me inquire 
of you, how many veterinarians of the Old Continent do we find 
posessing the degree of Doctor of Medicine? In Germany, we 
might perhaps, find a certain number, but it is only recently that 
in France, a few persons, who by special calling, or under pecu¬ 
liar directions in their daily attendance, have passed the examina¬ 
tion for medical doctors, while, so far as I am yet informed, 
England has not an M.D., M.R., C.V.S.,on her long list of vete¬ 
rinary graduates. But have the majority of the veterinarians of 
Europe failed to appreciate their importance; do we find in 
England fewer celebrities in veterinary science than in France, and 
are there less in the last named country than in Germany ? What 
were, or what are the Percivall, Bray, Clarke, Spooner, Williams, 
Robertson, Fleming, and so many other English veterinarians? 
What of the Delofoud, Renault, Toussaint, Nocard, Leblanc, 
Bouley, and hundreds of other graduates of the French schools? 
And again, amongst the Germans, how many could we not name, 
who are not M.Ds, but who still hold a world-wide veterinary 
reputation ? 
What does this prove, but the frequent fact that veterinary 
science furnishes an ample field, and quite sufficiently extensive 
to enable man to make his name, to fulfil his duties and to pay 
