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cattle anthrax, and most of them unaware of the fact that the 
veterinarian Fezer, of Munich, lias found the Bacillus Anthracis 
in the milk of animals suffering from this malady, and proven its 
power of communicating the disease to other animals when gain¬ 
ing direct access to the blood, as it may through abrasions or 
wounds, when taken as food. Has humanity any protection 
against this terribly fatal disorder except that furnished by the 
veterinarian’s skill ? The same question may be asked, and the 
same negative answer in every instance must be given, regarding 
glanders and farcy of the equine species; hydrophobia and the 
parasitic diseases of the canines; measles, trichinosis and “ hog 
cholera’' of swine; and “Texas fever,” rinderpest, eczema, epi¬ 
zootic and other diseases of ruminants. 
Hew Fork City, which has probably adopted more measures 
for the efficient protection of her citizens than any other commu¬ 
nity in this country, is yet open to infection from many sources 
that are entirely overlooked, or that are at least as yet unguarded 
against. While she with great pains and entire justice arrests 
and lines dealers in watered milk, she takes no precautions against 
the introduction and consumption of milk that may contain ani¬ 
mal viruses that are most disastrous to human health. 
In fact, all the diseases to which the lower animals are subject 
affect more or less directly or indirectly, the health, life, pecuni¬ 
ary interests or happiness of man, and it remains alone for those 
who are veterinarians to sooner or later afford that protection 
which a scientific knowledge of these matters shall indicate. 
Let veterinary science receive from the hands of all intelligent 
men, and especially from the medical profession, that kindly 
recognition and support which justice demands, and let the deris¬ 
ion which has characterized too many of the references made to 
us in medical journals be replaced by sentiments that accord 
strictly with facts, and that are unbiased with envy, conceit or 
bigotry. 
Fours truly, 
A Veterinarian, 
