EDITORIAL 
479 
his mind, the cultivated veterinarius is the man on which the 
world will finally rely for its study of the telluric, atmospheric 
and climatic influences on disease-genesis. We know also that 
to-day the profession is not up to this point, but we are confident 
it will attain to it; but to do it, we must have, as said, a proper 
and well regulated institution for education. Hence it is that our 
National Health Department will eventually be an organized 
army of well educated men, able to combat successfully man’s 
dread enemy— Disease; hence it is such a department cannot 
afford to despise veterinary medicine ; hence it is we must have a 
veterinarius upon it, and a national veterinary institute controlled 
by the National Department of Hygiene, represented by the 
veterinarius, who in the, we hope, not too distant future, should 
be elected by the teachers of the said veterinary institute. The 
work of such an institute we have elsewhere discussed in papers 
which we hope will follow the present in this journal as well as 
receive notice from others. 
Berlin, Prussia, Dec. 9, 1878. 
EDITORIAL. 
VETERINARY INSPECTORS. 
Through these columns, attention has already been called to 
essential questions touching upon sanitary regulations in both the 
general and state governments, and while we are not over sanguine 
as to the probability of our suggestions being at this time acted 
upon, there can be no doubt as to the ultimate recognition of the 
importance of veterinary science in conjunction with this all.im¬ 
portant subject; and sooner or later the veterinarian will find his 
knowledge in requisition by health boards that have not accom¬ 
plished a satisfactory success, while ignoring the claims which 
our branch of the medical science justly makes in the interest of 
public health. 
This question of establishing veterinary departments in all 
