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PRESIDENT BEEGh’s ADDEESS. 
grant violation of the fundamental principles of the Constitution. 
And I may here parenthetically remark, that that sacred in¬ 
strument seems never so terribly violated as when it interferes 
with a few citizens doing whatever they-please. 
But that reformer, Time, at length overcame this factitious 
but powerful adversary, until now T he has disappeared almost 
entirely from the conflict, and we have only the logical contro¬ 
versies of divergencies of opinion and personal interest. 
And a similar experience has also been yours; for the “Horse 
Doctor” has disappeared, to be replaced by the veterinary sur¬ 
geon, who now takes rank by the side of the human practitioner. 
And I fail to discover, gentlemen, any essential difference 
between the principles and purposes which underlie the human 
and animal medical science—if I may employ such a term. 
Both are based on a knowledge of the laws which govern ani¬ 
mal life; the blood, bones, and tissues of both are fundamentally 
identical and subject to the same influences and vicissitudes, 
and the universal climax, death, betrays no other deviation than 
is presented by the name or form of the creature. 
If any doubt exists as to the truthfulness of this theory, it is 
refuted by the cruel experiments of the bloody operators on the 
quivering bodies of dumb animals, performed in the outraged 
name of science. 
If the Maker of all things had given to the beast an organ¬ 
ism totally differing from that of man, of what avail would be 
their needless and criminal investigations ? 
Ho; pain and death have but one significance, whether the 
subject be man, or be it the speechless, uncomplaining brute. 
The consequences to the public of a better education in the 
laws of animal medicine, are only beginning to be fully realized. 
Hot only is the skill of the veterinary practitioner applicable 
to diseases and accidents of domestic animals, but his learning 
and experience should be employed by the State in a sanitary 
point of view. 
That the national health is greatly deteriorated by the inhu¬ 
man treatment of animals while in transit upon railroads and 
otherwise, by which the flesh becomes vitiated so as to be the 
