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no need for the formation of a new office—that of a State Veter¬ 
inarian. We do not see the true necessity of forming a special 
office for such State officer. But we must most emphatically 
insist on the necessity for the creation of such positions, and 
of its being connected with the State Board of Health. It is 
there, we believe, that the offices of the State Veterianian be¬ 
long—offices whose duties are so intimately connected with the 
general health of the people, he will then render in that di¬ 
rection services which could be appreciated, and which would 
show the usefulness of his profession. If State Veterianians 
were connected with Boards of Health, their labors would not 
only touch this or that peculiar form of diseases, they would 
not only be obliged to look after pleuro-pneumonia, but after 
all those diseases which are met daily in our large cities, glan¬ 
ders, farcy, and in our country districts not only those, but an¬ 
thrax, hog cholera, foot and mouth disease, &c., &c. And 
besides that, they could also exert their professional influence in 
one direction of our general laws of health, in the inspection of 
abattors, of markets, of meat, which we all know are yet in the 
hands of men entirely ignorant of the first principles they ought 
to possess. 
No, the office and positions of State Veterinarians cannot be 
compared to those positions of State physician or State doctor of 
the soul; it has a national excuse and reason for its creation, but 
we do believe that it is with State Boards of Health that it ought 
to be connected, as it is in most parts of Europe. 
PATHOLOGICAL PHYSIOLOGY. 
UPON THE CONTAGION OF TUBERCULOSIS. 
By M. H. Toussaint. 
The facts of contagion of tuberculosis that I have presented, 
and the objections made against them, have encouraged my in¬ 
vestigations, whose programme embraces to-day over two hun¬ 
dred and twenty experiments—my principal object being the 
