American Veterinary Review, 
q* , / /- —. 
AUGUST, 1879. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
A NATIONAL VETERINARY POLICE. * 
BY F. S. BILLINGS. 
The public spirit manifested by the proprietors of the Turf\ 
Field and Farm , in opening their pages so liberally to the discus¬ 
sion of a National Veterinary School , and a National Veterinary 
Police , should not fail of appreciation and acknowledgment from 
our stock-raisers, and every person interested in the welfare of 
our domestic animals, and the protection of the same, not only as 
animals, but from an economical point, from the ravages of pes¬ 
tilential diseases. Scarcely a day passes without its chronicle of 
the increasing ravages of some of these pests by some of our daily 
papers. In one paper we read of the rapid extension, as if some 
foul fiend were at work, of hog cholera among the swine of our west¬ 
ern breeders. Discouragement, almost poverty, to many of these 
men, is the yearly result from these, at present, apparently uncon¬ 
trollable invasions. In a late paper we read of the landing of a 
* Reprinted from tlie Turf, Field and Farm, with kind permission of the author. 
