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fairly the degree of force that nature exerts with art in the cure 
of disease, ignorant quackery, much of the heroic practice of the 
present, infinitessimal dosing—in hrief, all irrational methods of 
practice would soon be consigned to oblivion, and in their places 
we should see flourishing a rational system of treatment based 
upon scientific knowledge. 
NECESSITY FOR CONGRESSIONAL ACTION IN RELA- 
T ION TO CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF 
DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 
By N. H. PAAREN, M.D., Y.S., Chicago, III. 
[From the Prairie Farmer, Sept. 27th.] 
American Agricultural Congress, > 
lioCHESTER, N. Y. ) 
It is the intention by presenting the few remarks here roughly 
put together, to simply draw attention to the necessity of urging 
upon our Government the adoption of more energetic measures, 
with a view of preventing the spread of contagious diseases 
among domestic animals, and to provide for the enforcement of 
such measures, by establishing a National Veterinary Sanitary 
Bureau. 
In the present status of veterinary science in the United 
States, and the utter absence of the most necessary sanitary laws 
and regulations, it is evident that proper statistics of diseases and 
mortality among domestic animals, arc not obtainable. That the 
collection of such statistics must at no distant time be undertaken, 
all intelligent persons will admit. The attempts made by the 
National and the State Agricultural Departments to obtain these, 
are so inefficient as to fall short of the good they might accom¬ 
plish ; but the public good demands the adoption of proper and 
efficient means for obtaining a useful and timely knowledge of 
