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graduates in allopathy from respectable schools; second, the fol¬ 
lowers of Hahnemann, who are looked upon by the allopaths as a 
lot of fanatics; third, practitioners who have received their 
diplomas from schools that are a disgrace to a civilized nation; 
fourth, practitioners who, after a prescribed number of years of 
practice (?) are licensed by a State or County Medical Society: 
fifth, those who have no education or professional recognition and 
are empirics in every sense of the term. 
Is this a respectability that permits of any boasting or war¬ 
rants the throwing of stones ? Does the veterinary profession con¬ 
tain any elements that can compare with the moral degradation 
of thousands of human practitioners ? It would not be claiming 
much to assert that, taken as a whole, the veterinary profession pre¬ 
sents the better showing. We do not claim any sympathy for the 
irregularity of composition of our profession, nor do we intend to 
say aught against the respectable and representative portion of 
the medical profession, for they undoubtedly regret their present 
unfortunate position and desire something better, yet we would 
suggest that an effort be made to remove the beam from their 
own eye ere they seek to deride the presence of the mote in the 
eye of their weaker neighbor. 
The regular members of the veterinary profession are fully 
conscious of the obstacles presented by the presence of empirics 
within their ranks, and they know, what the Record does not 
seem as yet to have learned, that kindly recognition of true 
worth and the rendering of impartial justice, by respectable 
members of all the sciences, will soonest and most effectually 
remedy the evil. 
That a National Veterinary Sanitary Bureau could not he es¬ 
tablished from the ranks of the regularly qualified alone, as is as¬ 
sumed by the Record , seems to be an unconsidered and illogical 
conclusion when we remember that a National Board of Health has 
recently been formed from a profession of as equally bad or worse 
composition. It is no more to be assumed that all elements are to 
be represented in the one instance than in the other. That our pre¬ 
sent National Board of Health meets with any serious opposition 
from the irregular members of the profession, or that its labors 
