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“Resolved. That we recommend the employment of Veterinary Surgeons in the Army, 
and one in the Agricultural Department, with rank and pay of other medical officers. 
The following day the resolutions were read by the Secretary, and the vote being 
taken, was lost. There was very little doubt that the resolutions were lost by a large 
majority, but notwithstanding I asked for a decision of the vote. Before the decision 
was called, I took the floor and amid considerable opposition, debate being out of 
order, I asked it as a special consideration to be allowed to make a few remarks rela¬ 
tive to the above resolution before another vote was taken, which was granted. 
“I thereupon gave a brief account of the progress of medicine in regard to its re¬ 
lation to Comparative Physiology and Pathology, showing how every advance in 
human medicine, was the result of previous experiment upon lower animals, and after 
citing the illustrious names of those who had engaged in this great work, and 
in Veterinary Science in general, and then giving a practical turn to my concluding 
remarks in reference to the needs of Veterinary Colleges, and educated Veterinarians 
in agricultural interests, and in the United States Army, a new light seemed to dawn 
upon the minds of many present, and the resolutions being taken up serratim, the 
three first were adopted unanimously, the fourth, amended by Dr. Otis, U. S. A. as 
follows : 
“That we recommend the government to appoint a Professor of Veterinary Medicine 
and Surgery to be attached to the Agricultural Bureau with a suitable salary,—adopted 
(communications were afterwards received asking to recommend persons for said appoint¬ 
ment); Dr. Mussy of Ohio, immortalized himself by moving to lay the whole subject 
on the table, which it is needless to say was lost. 
“On motion the preamble 'and resolutions were then adopted as a whole. 
“I should say that Prof. Antisell was indignant in regard, to the summary man¬ 
ner in which his report was disposed of by the association, and although I don’t know 
that he expressed himself to any one but myself in reference to it. He refused to give 
it to the committee on publication. Not wishing that the paper should be entirely 
lost, I had it referred to the section on Surgery and Anatomy for the discussion, 
but for some reasons Dr. Antisell, I believed failed to appear. This ended a mem¬ 
orable event in the history of Veterinary education. 
“In 1872 in Philadelphia, desirous to keep the subject of Veterinary Education 
warm and before the medical profession, I offered the following: 
“ Whereas. It has long since been recognized that diseases of a dangerous and 
fatal nature are transferable from animals to man, and that certain zymotic affections 
which are common to both man and animals, do very frequently manifest themselves 
first in the latter, and subsequently on man. Thus warning us that to be indifferent 
to the condition of the inferior animals, is to introduce and create centres of disease 
amongst ourselves. 
“Resolved that a committee be appointed to ascertain what measures can be in¬ 
stituted to prevent the extension of such diseases to man ? And what sanitary measures 
can be effected to arrest the progress of such diseases in animals? Carried. 
“The President appointed as a committee—Dr. A. Stein of New York, Dr. G. 
Sutton of Indiana, Dr. S. D. Gross of Pennsylvania, I regret that because of the 
distance, the next meeting being at St. Louis, I was unable to be present and presume 
the matter went by default.” This Gentlemen, was in 1872. This committee has not 
yet been discharged—where is the report? To us Veterinarians belongs the final 
task to make the inquiry, as though there was much difficulty in carrying the motion 
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