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whose treatment by the executioner would not have been infinitely 
more proper than the prescription of the physician and the care 
of the nurse ? 
But glanders ! Glanders we have, and plenty of it. Hydro¬ 
phobia, if Pasteur's method is what we believe it to be, is now 
curable and can be prevented. But what do we know of glan¬ 
ders, which exists in our stables in hundreds of cases; that kills 
the poor working horse as well as the millionaire’s trotter; that, 
though it progresses slowly and insidiously, nevertheless always 
kills; that disguises itself with all the appearances of perfect and 
robust health, while still infecting and killing wherever it can 
inoculate, and that is communicable to mankind, and always fatal, 
after a long and most loathsome sickness ? 
Hydrophobia may be the subject of to-day, but as for us, 
veterinarians, we know that glanders will sooner or later take its 
place. Diseases of animals contagious to man must come under 
the cognizance of veterinary sanitary medicine. They belong to 
that domain, and sooner or later (may it not be too late) the duty 
will, upon the imperative demand of the people, impose itself 
upon our government. Must we wait until the reporters regale 
the readers of the newspapers with the harrowing details of the 
deaths of a few of our prominent citizens and public men, and 
substitute a glanders fright for the existing hydrophobia scare, 
before we are permitted to record some rational legislation on 
these subjects ? 
REGULATION OF VETERINARY PRACTICE—VETERINARY SO¬ 
CIETIES. 
The subject of the regulation of veterinary practice is once 
again occupying the attention of some of the State societies, and, 
as usual, the New York society finds itself first in the field. The 
need for action seems to be urgent, and the members of that body 
are getting ready for another, and it is to be hoped what will 
prove to be a more successful effort, to secure their object. At 
some of their recent meetings they have had the subject under 
consideration, by the members, and for the still |more thorough 
