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principally to those of New York—veterinarians of education have 
become more numerous, and now the West is glad to come and 
secure their services. Wyoming Territory, Kansas, Illinois, 
and many other States are now provided with accomplished offi¬ 
cials, and we have just received intelligence of the appointment 
of Dr. G. Keefer to the position of Territorial Veterinarian of 
Montana Territory, and of Dr. Julius Gerth as State Veterinarian 
of Nebraska. The alma mater from which these gentlemen were 
graduated may feel proud of these successes of her sons, and the 
addition of their names to others who had previously achieved 
similar distinctions. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
THE VETERINARIAN AS A SANITARIAN, 
Bt Prof. L. McLean, M.R.C.V.S. 
(A Paper read before the New York State Veterinary Society.) 
Mr. President and Gentlemen. —The subject I have selected 
to bring before you this evening is a many-sided one, and I will 
endeavor to present it from a practical point of view. The Veter- 
narian as a Sanitarian. 
The veterinary profession has, in my experience on this con¬ 
tinent, made rapid progress, and has, at least in this city, been 
well received and patronized, and it is for us to act as a profession 
and individuals, that we may show that such confidence has not 
been misplaced, and the communities amongst which we live have 
a right to expect that we will act actively and intelligently as san¬ 
itarians, in protecting them against the dangers of contracting, 
either by inoculation or ingestion, any of the many contagious or 
epizootic diseases to which our patients are so liable. 
Science has, within the past few years, thrown such a strong 
light upon their etiology that we are no longer in ignorance as to 
the most rational hygienic measures which should be adopted for 
their suppression, if you, gentlemen, accept of the germ theory 
