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couneellors upon her “ Reiclis Gesundheit-Amt,” State Board of 
Health, and one at least is one of its most valuable members. 
Germany is about issuing a set of veterinary police laws for the 
entire nation, in the place of those now existing, which were issued 
by the respective governments. Veterinary medicine and police 
differ much from human; everything assumes a more general form; 
her laws must be more general, because the common danger is 
greater; animals infested by invasive diseases are easily subjects 
of transport, while the sick man gladly stays at home. The 
entire community has an interest in all matters pertaining to vet¬ 
erinary medicines, while in relation to human, it is a different in¬ 
terest, there is no comparison in this regard ; veterinary medicine 
holds in its hands the kevs to a large number of human dis- 
eases, and on the other side she holds at her command an immense 
part of the national wealth. 
We have indicated that the Medical School of each State 
should be regulated by the State, the Examining Board to be the 
State Board of Health, which would also have at its disposal such 
institutions for the purpose of patho-setiological experiment, con¬ 
ducted at their suggestion by the teachers, in which the advanced 
students would also participate. We would not certainly be less 
generous to our National Department of Hygiene, and so we 
propose, as we have been proposing and intend to keep on battling 
for, until we see its completion, that this National Board have an 
institution at its command, not only of the same kind, but one 
which is better by far adapted to perform their work, than a mere 
medical institution. Hence it is we propose : one National 
Institute for the study of veterinary and comparative pathology, 
for the education of men on whom the nation can rely in the 
study of all ^etiological influences, for we believe, aye, we know, 
that the day will come that Yeterinarius will be the most 
effective hygienic officer of the nation, when in a prophylactic 
point of view he will stand as far ahead of the Medicus, as the 
latter will be valued above him for a practical. We know of 
what we speak ; we know of the immense advantages yet to be 
reaped from the exact study of comparative medicine; we know 
that from the nature of his profession, from the natural bias of 
