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Veterinary Surgeons. For several days lie remained in Washington and worked hard to 
awaken some good feeling amongst congressmen in favor of veterinary madicine. His 
appeal to the members of the House of Representatives was short but very much to 
the point ; and when, after laying before the House, the wealth of our Country, the 
dangers to which our live stock were exposed, the risk which surrounds it by disease— 
when he then said to them, “What are the means best adapted to check these evils? 
Have we well-educated veterinary surgeons ? Have we veterinary schools ? Have we, 
in the Civil or Military departments of the Government, or in our Board of Health, a 
sufficient number of educated veterinary surgeons to hold in check, or advise us, if 
an epixootic should appear, or have we any at all ?” The House was then, for the time 
being, well up to the importance of the subject. Dr. Busteed’s appeal was certainly 
going to be acted upon : he could return home—so he did—and that was the last of it. 
Once more veterinary medicine was doomed by the very ones whose duty if was to bring 
it forward. 
Legislatures had been appealed to without success—Congress had not kept 
its promises. Let us see now what the Medical Profession itself was willing to do, 
and what it has done.for its sister branch. 
In 1870, Dr'S turn, then filling the chair of Physiology in the N. Y. C. V. S., re¬ 
ceived from the New York County Medical Society the appointment of delegate to 
the American Medical Society meeting in Washington. 
Instructed and well prepared to treat of a subject,, to which by his own profession 
he might be somewhat a stranger, he went to the meeting, and there, after much labor, 
accomplished an important step, viz. : the professional recognition of the Veterinary by 
human medicine. 
Let me repeat Dr. Stein’s statement relating to the whole affair. He says • 
“ Prof. Thomas Antisell had prepared an elaborate and highly interesting report 
upon Veterinary Colleges abroad, their extent, work, etc. After partial reading of 
this report it was, upon motion, referred to the committee on publication, I being the 
only one I believe opposing the motion. The next day I asked a gentleman (who had 
voted in the affirmative, or perhaps not voted at all) to move a reconsideration of the 
motion referring 10 Dr. Antisell’s paper to the committee on publication, which after 
some little discussion was carried. I then offered a resolution that the paper and 
the whole subject of Veterinary Medicine be referred to a special committee to report 
the same meeting,—Carried. 
The President appointed Drs. S. D. Gross, Thos. Antisell, and myself as a com¬ 
mittee ; I then put in writing the following preamble and resolution, and then submit¬ 
ted them to Profs. Gross and Antisell, both concurring in the sentiment thereof. 
Whereas , We regard the‘cultivation of Veterinary Science of the most vital im¬ 
portance, not only to the advancement of human medicine, but also for reasons of 
political economy, and agricultural interest. 
Resolved , First , That we recommend the State and County Medical Societies to 
use their influence in the establishment and support of Veterinary Schools in their res¬ 
pective States. 
Second, That they ask the Governers of their respective States to recommend in 
their messages to their Legislatures the importance of establishing Veterinary Col¬ 
leges, and that appropriations be made to support them. 
Third , That they recommend the Governor and the State Legislature when organ¬ 
izing Boards of Health, to appoint one or more thoroughly educated Veterinary 
Surgeons to be associated as commissioners with other medical officers. 
