CORRESPONDENCE. 
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I am opposed to the system of “ stamping out,” if by that is 
meant, and I so understand it, that all cattle which have come in 
contact with the diseased, whether themselves sick or not, are to 
be destroyed. This plan destroys too many healthy cattle at a 
loss both to the State and individual owner, or, like capital pun¬ 
ishment, from its terrible severity we are apt to be persuaded 
that possibly some may not develop the disease that have been 
exposed, and that we are left without the protection which the 
more mild yet surer system of inoculation affords. I would not 
advise any one to keep and treat cattle once infected, but would 
suggest that at any outbreak of infectious pleuro-pneumonia it be 
obligatory upon the owners to employ a competent veterinary 
surgeon, who shall carefully examine all cattle that have been ex¬ 
posed to the contagion, and such as are sick, or become so, to 
be killed at once , and their carcasses buried. All the apparently 
healthy cattle to be properly inoculated and strictly isolated from 
all others. 
That all cattle within a radius of half a mile be inoculated . 
Every State should have its own veterinary surgeon, paid out 
of the State Treasury, avIio should be consulted upon the appear¬ 
ance of any and all enzootic or epizootic diseases. 
Destroying the sick, and early isolation of the exposed with in¬ 
oculation will, I think, be successful in eradicating any outbreak 
of this disease which may occur. 
Carversville, Bucks Co., Pa., April 18, 1878. 
QUACKERY IN THE PROFESSION. 
To the Editor of American Veterinary Review: 
The May number of the Review contains the draft of a Bill 
before the Legislature of your State regulating the practice of 
Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, and while it would be of great 
value to your commonwealth in its tendency to restrict the prac_ 
tice of this import and specialty, to men with at least a reasonable 
amount of practical knowledge of the science, and also by prevent¬ 
ing young men from practicing until they have qualified them, 
selves by a regular course of study, it has no influence whatever 
