EDITORIAL, 
493 
especially in the one last-mentioned, the author shows his desire 
of working in the ranks of the profession, and exhibits evidences 
of a laudable and ambitious desire to elevate the science, by thus 
throwing in his contribution towards advanced progress. It 
would well become all veterinary students to follow in the line of 
those who have done so well, for in so doing the benefits would be 
for themselves, for their colleagues in study, for their alma mater, 
and above all, for the profession of their choice. 
SANITARY VETERINARY BOARDS—VETERINARY HEALTH BOARDS. 
In a recently published medical paper, complaint was made 
that a Veterinary Board should be supported by Congress, while 
the National Board of Health was allowed to famish. In our last 
issue we made some remarks on this subject, and we publish to¬ 
day the report of the Treasury Cattle Commission. The report 
will speak for itself, and shows that what has been done has been 
done well, and that the Commissioners deserved credit for their 
labors. 
We do not wish to have it understood, however, that we con¬ 
sider the Veterinary Board superior or more useful than the 
National Board. Far be such an idea from our mind. But what 
we think ought to exist what we believe Congress on one side, 
and State Legislatures on the other, ought to enforce, is the con¬ 
nective and collective work of the Medical Sanitarians with the 
Veterinarians. In other words, we believe that if the people of 
our country could be made to ask their legislators that the two 
interests should be combined, so far as the general public health is 
concerned, much benefit would, result. The National Board 
of Health has been, we believe, a separate and distinct Board, 
working by itself separately from the Boards of Health of other 
States and cities. This, we think, is an error; such, in fact, as 
may be charged upon many other organizations with similar 
objects, which do their good for a certain time and then die out to 
be forgotten, as to any of the fruits of their existence, proving 
thus the folly of their modes of labor. 
A National Board of Health is as indispensable in this conn- 
