The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-09-06
TREATMENT OF AILINe ANIMALS.

knowledge and nostrums which arc admin.
istered with some confidence -esimples''
which are useless and harmless, or possibly
beneficiale@If these fail, they usually have
near at hand
"7he Village Doctor
Whose ancient sulky, down the village lanes.
Dragged like war-car, captive ills and pains. -
1t, however, the animals are sick. we have
no one totusn to-cow.leaches and horse.
doctors, black-smiths and stable BOYS, whose
tender mercies are cruelties, arc always ready
~eo Physlc and purge, to scar and torture,
with everything and device they can think
of,-nauseous mixtures, the very enumer.
alton of whose ingredients would be hard.
~ lifting matter for these pages, if no i'm
portant good were to be gained by it. So
tho poor things suffer, and get we'll in spite
OF us, or they die in agony while we stand
by helpless. This state of things ia all
wrong, and might and must be remieded.
VETERINARY SURGEONS.
The number of educated veterinarians in
this country is very small; they all find
employment In or about our large towns,
and as rule are a very respectable class
OF practitioners. To them, however. when.
ever We can, we confde the treatment of
our live stock but not one farmer in TO-
600 can do SO. We have two or thre vet
erinary schools which are struggling with
poverty or lack Of appreciation, and would
do we'll it they each graduated q score of
practitioners a. year. Medical schools for
training human physicians abound, and
see,r graduating classes number hundreds.
81 ~ iiAglf u I5ars ktesttss Ns aaaaze.l
States, has its educated physician while
throushout the Western States they are
numerous, and within reach everywhere in
vfiiSs®iosa-.N Niue.tenths of them are
making no more than fair living, and
many are failing to do that. Other pro-
fessionsandsskiiings tempt them from their
own that they may get better pay. Not
that they do not love their profession, nor
that they are not qualified to practice it, bat
it will not support them.
WHY SHOULD NOT PHYSICIANS TREAT AN
IMALs AS WELL AS MEN
If physician has all he can do to treat
ailing humanity, certainly the animals must
be neglected; but when, as at present, the
"doctors" are making poor living, or none
at all, what should prevent them from treat
ing the animals? Nothing hinders but a
false prize. Study aud experience will en-
able any physician to do it with success. -
Comparative anatomy is studied in all our
medical schools; comparative pathology
should be. The knowledge of. animal dis
eases is of great service to physician: In
many ur0oa.UI .-;mnla are found to have SO
ology is quite essential to .reasonmg' -r4l.,
and treating many of the ills that 'man'is
heir to. Were it to become general Gus.
tom among physicians to treat animals, and
to charge for it, we might confidently anti
cipate the
MOST GRATIFYING RESULTS.
These, or some Of them, venture to
enumerate. First, the physicians would
make better livings; besides, they would
at once become more important to Their
constituencies. Second, the country would
have corps of efficient obserxeEsssse the
watch for infectious or contagious disease,
among animals, and quick to detect and re-
port upon unusual animal diseases of an,
kind, whenever they might break out, thu
providing an efficient safeguard against ill
ing our city markets. .yTith diseased meat, o
the killing of such for country consnmRtion
Third, the wealth of the country would b,
increased at once by the sasing Of the liye
of many animals and ultimately by tn
better understanding and prevention Of va
rious murrans and maladies. Fourth, im
provement in the sanitary surroundings O
both animals and men, aud much bighe
degree of health and soundness.
} Agricalturist.