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the many points at which we must clasp hands with the sister pro¬ 
fession of medicine. We find for example, that man and animal 
reciprocate in supporting the Taenia Solium, Taenia mediocamek 
latta, Echinococcus, Bothriocephalus, Strougglus, Gigas, Trico- 
cephalus dispar, the Trichinae, the Ascaris Mystax, the Fasciola 
Hepatica, and various Acarina, Ixodus and Gllstridae. Again 
among vegetable parasites they reciprocate in entertaining various 
fungi and mycrozyrns, Oidium, Tricophyton, Achorion, Bacillus, 
&c. To meet these with sound preventative measures the physi 
cian and veterinarian must work hand in hand, and cut off the 
parasite at all stages of its life. Another and still larger body of 
paiasites find their hosts in widely different genera of animals, or 
even in vegetables, while some spend a portion of their lives in 
water or other inorganic media, bo that in contending with these 
we must not only extend our observation to feral animals, but also 
to botany, geology, watershed, drainage, and indeed to the whole 
environment, if we would have our labors crowned with success. 
The field extends in every direction as we contemplate it, and 
giand, noble and economic achievements await accomplishment in 
many different directions; labors that will crown the unselfish 
worker with lasting honor. 
But one thing at a time. Let veterinarians unite in wise 
counsel and sound work for the extermination of the contagious 
lung fever, and they will conquer a name and a status which the 
profession in this country has never attained. They wili thus 
accomplish incomparably more than can ever be reached in the way 
of legislation. They will gain an esteem and trust from the 
people that will bring forth future harvests of even richer fruit¬ 
age and more abundant honor. The extinction of the exotic lung 
fevci in America will open the way for the extermination of 
the pi evalent fever of swine, and to the narrow restriction, if 
not to the obliteration of the glanders and farcy, of rabies, 
of malignant anthrax, of trichinosis, and of other forms of par¬ 
asitism. 
We can even hope to render essential service to the sanitarian 
of the medical profession, for as all animal contagia are closelv 
related, and to a large extent subject to similiar laws, our triumphs 
