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EDITORIAL. 
This report from the “ Harford County Medical Association,” 
is probably the first of that tenor, but it is to be hoped other 
associations will follow the lead so boldly taken, and that event¬ 
ually the American Medical Association will lend its great aid in 
making veterinary medicine in the United States, what it is in 
many European countries, second to none . 
VETERINARY INSPECTORS. 
The recent inquiry, instituted by the English government, 
relative to the veterinary sanitary regulations of this country, has 
influenced our Secretary of State to issue a circular to the Collec¬ 
tors of our several ports, authorizing them to “cause an inspection 
to be made of all cattle exported to Great Britain.” The duties 
devolving upon such an officer can only be performed efficiently 
by the skilled veterinarian, and the appointment of inspectors 
from any other source will be simply a subversion of public 
health and trade to personal interests. 
Neither do we believe our English friends would be satisfied 
with the certificate issued by inspectors appointed outside the ranks 
of the veterinary profession, for they would not be worth the 
paper upon which they were written. 
Then let us anxiously watch all these appointments, and see 
whether they are made in the interest of the public good, or given 
to those feeders at the public crib who can control the greatest 
amount of perverted political influence. 
NOTICE. 
Believing that an incorporated State Yeterinary Society could 
obtain readily from the Legislature, full recognition and protection 
against quackery, we would feel greatly obliged to any of our 
readers who will send in the names and addresses of regular grad¬ 
uates from any part of this State, in that we may communicate 
with them upon the subject. 
