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all his debts to his chosen profession, if he will but consent to 
realize his importance and value, and to strive and labor accord¬ 
ingly. 
But what is to be done by our' young American graduates ? 
For what reason do they desire this new degree ? Has one, or 
have any among those who have obtained their physician’s di¬ 
ploma, done anything for the veterinary profession ? Have any 
of those who claim to have “ completed ” an education, which 
they must have considered as previously deficient, distinguished 
themselves by writing or publishing anything that has shown ex¬ 
ceptional attainments, or proved the possession of merit over 
others of their own degree ? Has one, or any of their number, 
brought to the medical world any newer discoveries, propounded 
any more original theories, or introduced any fresher facts than 
can be credited to the fact of their so considered more completed 
education ? If I am ignorant in this matter, let me know it. 
Of course, young veterinarians cannot be considered complete 
masters of their science. How could it be otherwise with the 
short term of study, which is considered sufficient by our Ameri¬ 
can institutions? But is it so insufficient, so defective, so 
unsatisfactory, so incomplete, that a year longer in the lecture 
room, or a spring session in the dissecting room of a medical col¬ 
lege is necessary to make it available ? 
If we look at an occurrence which recently took place in this 
city, what would the answer be ? A young veterinarian, a grad¬ 
uate of one of the Hew York colleges, entered a medical college 
of this city directly after receiving his D.V.S. He worked hard, 
no doubt; he was a good student at the veterinary, and was 
bound to be in a medical college. After one year’s study of 
human medicine, he graduated fifth out of a class of 189. Was 
not that a powerful evidence that his veterinary knowledge, theo¬ 
retical, if you wish, was all that could be required ? Did he not 
possess, when his degree of D.Y.S. was granted, all the essential 
requirements of general knowledge, of medical knowledge, of 
the general principles of medical science, and did he not 
have the essential elements for private study ? Of what wonder¬ 
ful use to him was his veterinary education already, and what ad- 
