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try as similar organizations are in Europe—and as in Europe, 
one of its principal and essential departments will be a Veterinary 
Sanitary Department. We feel satisfied that the greatest and 
possibly the only error which can be alleged against the National 
Board of Health, is that it ignored, to a great extent, the useful¬ 
ness of veterinary science. 
And if this was the case with this institution, what can be 
said of our State or City Boards of Health ? Are they less 
guilty ? Do they appoint veterinarians on their staffs ? Do we 
see, as we do in Europe, veterinary surgeons occupying the ranks 
they are entitled to among the membership of the public sanitary 
bodies ? Have they any regulations of any value which define 
their duties or their rights in cases of contagious diseases of ani¬ 
mals ? Do we see them occupying any of the positions of meat, 
market and slaughter-house inspectors, to which they are entitled 
by their education and their professional knowledge ? No ; with 
very few exceptions, veterinarians seem to be entirely ignored as to 
their usefulness as guardians of the public health ; and as long as 
this shall be so, no City, State or National Board of Health can 
fully claim to be beyond reproach, no matter how well their 
labors may been carried out. 
CORRECTION. 
The following letter makes a correction in an article in our 
last issue. The case had escaped our attention, probably as not 
being altogether of the same nature. 
Prof. liautard : 
Dear Sir :—In the last issue of the Be view, in reporting a 
“ Bare Dermatoid in the Horse,” you say the only case we can 
find on record, at all similar to this case, can be found in the Vet¬ 
erinarian ,, etc. Please refer to Vol. V., No. 11 (February, 1882), 
of the American Veterinary Beview, page 496, correcting a 
typographical error on page 497, and you have your attention di¬ 
rected to a derm cyst. Am I right ? Fraternally, etq., 
George C. Faville. 
