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although such is not mentioned in the annual announcement of 
the college. Clinical instruction is entirely ignored, and is not a 
part of the curriculum. 
When a student enquires concerning the ailment of a patient 
in the college infirmary, u one of the assistants ” will impolitely 
inform him that it is “ a very severe case of sailor’s gripes or 
gorman rattles.” It is needless to mention that one session was 
sufficient to gratify their ambition to study in the said veterinary 
college. 
Is it any wonder that some of the State veterinary medical 
associations do not hesitate to admit quacks and charlatans into 
membership in their respective associations, and even grant 
them certificates of membership as veterinary surgeons ? 
The majority of the regular graduates composing the body of 
the Ohio State Veterinary Medical Association are graduates of 
the same veterinary institution. Therefore the purport of that 
circular or letter, which Prof. Liautard received from them, and 
which was subsequently published in the American Veterinary 
Review, was evidently intended as a mild rebuke to the “ short 
cut” method of instruction as taught and practised in that 
veterinary college. However, there was no urgent necessity to 
offer it as an unpardonable insult to the other veterinary schools 
and colleges in the United States and Canada. 
It must be distinctly understood that this article was not 
written for the purpose of inciting any personal discussion, but 
merely to expose some practices which are inimical to the 
interests and welfare of veterinary science. 
Very respectfully, 
James A. Waugh, V.S., (Ont.) 
Regt. Vet. Surg. Sixth Cav., U.S.A. 
VETERINARY MEDICAL LEGISLATION. 
Editor American Veterinary Review : 
I send you for publication a copy of the proposed bill to 
regulate veterinary medicine and surgery in the State of New 
York. It is, as you will see, far more liberal than that advocated 
