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cannot be blamed for the unsuccessful result, whose awful com¬ 
plications w r ill one day follow. 
We have yet one hope, and that is, that the Department of 
Agriculture will continue the work it has already begun, and that, 
wiser than the State governments, it will take measures which 
will deliver us from the presence of that terribly dangerous 
scourge. 
BILL TO REGULATE VETERINARY MEDICINE IN NEW YORK 
STATE.—ITS FAILURE TO PASS. 
A bill to regulate the practice of veterinary medicine was 
introduced, last year, in the Legislature of the State of New York, 
and, as our readers know, failed to pass. Taken up this year from 
the pigeon-hole where it had been placed, it was again presented, 
and again met with the same fate. 
Noticing this second failure, the Medical Record says, “This 
could hardly be expected otherwise, as it was a somewhat prema¬ 
ture measure. It is well to encourage all proper measures for 
elevating the standard of veterinary medicine, but the practitioners 
of this art are not yet, as a rule, sufficiently advanced in education 
or scientific attainments to need the protection of legislation.” 
Veterinarians of New York, what can you say to this? The 
Medical Record has told you what it believes to be the truth, and 
you have no one to blame but yourselves for the allusions made 
in those few lines. We know that you will deny the allegations 
made by the Record ; we know that many amongst us are as 
advanced in education and scientific attainments as many mem¬ 
bers of our sister profession, but how have we shown it ? When 
have we placed it on record ? Can we point at anything that will 
reflect advantageously upon us ? Can we show any scientific 
work or investigation of which any of us can be proud ? And is it 
not time that, while attending to the daily labors of ordinary 
practice, you should do something which would wipe out from the 
scientific men of your State the sad impression that they have of 
your scientific qualifications ? Let us do this; let us show to the 
.medical profession, at least, that there is amongst us something 
