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and ungleaned field, instead of increasing the already over-crowded 
ranks of the regular medical profession. 
The above resolutions were ordered to be spread on the 
Secretary’s minute book. 
Dr. Forwood and others made the following remarks viz: 
If a horse is sick, the village blacksmith prescribes aloes, 
turpentine, nitre, young chickens, Scotch snuff, new milk, and a 
host of other things, without knowing what for ; with the result 
more deaths than cures. Among the multiplicity of remedies, 
some may do good. From the fact that the unskilled have had 
and still have it in tlieir hands, it has brought the profession into 
disrepute. Do away with ignorance and educate the people, or 
rather a doctor for such cases. As the medical field is crowded, 
so the field in veterinary surgery is open. The practice would be 
more lucrative than the regular profession, for a time at least. 
Any persons who own stock would be willing to pay for medical 
attention. For many years the profession would pay well. Some 
would object to the respectability of the veterinary, but it is just 
as respectable to treat lower animals as the higher. There is no 
reason why it should be otherwise. Notice the great saving of 
money, too. I know of a fine horse, valued at $10,000, that was 
killed by driving a nail in the foot, when the doctor, for say $20, 
could have cured the animal. 
It is proper here to state that it would be impossible to com¬ 
bine the professions. One branch or the other must suffer for 
want of time to attend. 
The regular medical subjects being discussed at length by the 
members present, after partaking of a bountiful and elegant 
dinner, prepared by the host, Mr. Sauner, they adjourned to 
meet on the second Tuesday in May, 1879, at Bel Air. 
H. Olay Whiteford, M.D., 
Secretary. 
OBITUARY. 
On the 23d of November, Mr. W. A. Muiphy, Y.S., practising 
in Cambridge, Mass., died of heart disease. Graduate of Mon¬ 
treal in the spring of 1877, he was recently elected a member of 
the United States Veterinary Medical Association. A bright and 
pleasant young man, upright in all his dealings, and v^ry indus¬ 
trious, had his life been spared he would have been a credit to 
his teachers, and done honor to his profession. 
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