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GEORGE FLEMING. 
work he lias done in its behalf. Not satisfied with the good 
already realized for veterinary English literature by the numerous 
works he has written, and which to-day are found in the libraries 
of every practitioner and in the hands of every veterinary student, 
nor by the improvement he has obtained in the military veter¬ 
inary service, he now turns his attention to the position of the 
civilian veterinarian and wants him to be protected from quackery. 
A bill is to be introduced in the forthcoming session of Parliament 
for the protection of the title of Veterinary Surgeon, and ito doubt, 
pushed by Mr. Fleming, and backed by the intelligent wealth of 
England and by the medical profession, will soon become a law, 
and then the day of coachmen, grooms, farriers and blacksmiths 
styling themselves veterinary surgeons will soon be over. How 
much the United States are in need of similar legislation, our 
readers know. But when will we be able to announce this great 
step in the advancement of a science which in this country is yet 
but in its infancy ? 
HUMAN AND ANIMAL VARIOLA: A STUDY IN COM¬ 
PARATIVE PATHOLOGY. 
By George Fleming, F.K.C.V.S., Army Veterinary Inspector. 
(From the Veterinary Journal, London, England.) 
( Con tinned from p. 391). 
I have already alluded to the results of small-pox inoculations 
on the horse, and shown that, as on the ox, they were either neg¬ 
ative or nearly so, the positive results yielding only the most 
trifling evidence of infection, and nothing at all like horse-pox 
being ever produced from the insertion of the small-pox virus 
into the skin of the horse, while re-transmission to mankind only 
gave rise to small-pox. On the contrary, as we have seen, horse. 
