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editorial. 
EDITORIAL, 
A SANITARY VETERINARY BUREAU. 
Our article on the organization of a Sanitary Veterinary Bu¬ 
reau has seemed to meet from one of our friend contemporaries, 
the Medical Record, not as kind a reception as past relations had 
encouraged us to look for; and the notice which it gave to it in 
its issue of November 8th, ult., receives an answer from one 
amongst us, which we publish to-day. At first we felt much dis¬ 
appointed in reading the article ; but on second consideration we 
looked upon it as a good move on the part of our friend co-editor, 
and we are now somewhat inclined to thank him for the trouble 
he has taken in bringing the subject before the medical profes¬ 
sion, to which we have accustomed ourselves to look for sup¬ 
port, assistance and recognition. 
Few physicians, we are sure, will consider the subject in the 
same manner as the Medical Record , and we have every reason 
to believe that its sarcastic remarks will not be accepted by the 
large majority amongst the members of the medical profession. 
The question, whether or no there are enough veterinarians 
of education in America to organize a Sanitary Veterinary Board 
of Health, is one which, we believe, we are better able to judge of 
than the physician—and in supposing that we are but a few, we 
are to learn yet that a large number is essentially necessary for 
the work to be done. We know of some States where contagious 
epizootic diseases have been got rid of by one single veterinary 
surgeon , and those States have remained free from such diseases 
to this day. 
As to the condition of the standing of veterinarians, the subdi¬ 
vision made by the Record is also essentially erroneous. What 
does he mean in saying that “ we have in America but one veter¬ 
inary college which exists under legislative sanction and which 
can grant genuine diplomas.” So far as we know, there are three 
schools legally incorporated and legally authorized to grant diplo¬ 
mas. Whether these diplomas are obtained, as regular medical 
practitioners generally understand, is not the question ; these 
degress are nevertheless genuine. 
