VETERINARY MEDICAL LEGISLATION. 
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The virus is specially limited to certain tissues, generally those 
which form the specific lesion, examples of which we find in*the 
vesicle, etc., of small-pox, the chancre of glanders, the pustule of 
farcy, the eruption and desquamation of scarlet fever and the 
exudation in diphtheria. 
In order to accomplish the task we have indicated it would be 
necessary to create special departments in the State government. 
But as that is a legal question I leave it to the judiciary com¬ 
mittee, who would naturally see that it does not conflict with de¬ 
partments in existence. 
That it does not and could not interfere with the liberties of 
the citizen, is apparent on its face, the measure being, in fact, one 
of protection. That it would interfere with the sale of diseased 
meats and impure milk, I verily believe, and in a very forcible 
manner, but while it destroyed the gains of a few unscrupulous 
dealers in the above articles, it would benefit the consumers, 
whose name is legion. 
We hold, as men of liberal education and scientific attain¬ 
ments, that it is our duty to the public to educate them up to a 
knowledge of evils that threaten their welfare, and solicit their 
aid in invoking the Legislature for a suitable defence. 
The qualified veterinarian has not only long stood guard over 
diseases that decimate our herds, entailing financial losses to the 
owners, for which service he is inadequately reimbursed, but his 
efforts are also directed towards checking their spread among the 
human family, and in this capacity he “ poses ” as a sanitarian of 
a benovelent order, for this service meets with no reward except 
the consciousness in his own bosom of preventing a portion of the 
suffering to which human flesh is heir. 
And in this latter field of usefulness his efforts are handi¬ 
capped to a marked extent, detrimentally to the checking of dis¬ 
ease in its incipiency, by the fact that no laws exist regulating 
the practice of veterinary medicine in this, the Empire State, 
which, as its name implies, should take the initiative, while on 
the contrary it does not even follow some of its sister States in 
legislation on so important a subjeet. 
Every veterinarian of any standing in the profession feels the 
