The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-11-28
The Medical Treatment of Our Bones.
tic Animals.


tic Animals.
We publish on our first page to-day an ar
ticle upon a subject in which all of our read
ers are more or less interested, namely, the
| medical and surgical treatment of sick and
| diseased domestic animals, known as Veteri-
nary Medicine. This is one of the most I'M
portant branches of knowledge that can en-
gage the attention of our public benefactors.
1t has hitherto received less notice, perhaps,
| than any other subject of equal importance
| to mankind
Our domestic animals of the different kinds
have been to such an extent made subservient
to the wants, uses and necessities of man,
that we can no longer disregard their needs
| and proper care in Sickness or allow them to
endure unnecessary suffering and death, with
out financial loss altogether disproportion-
ate to the amount which, under proper treat
ment, would he amply sufficient for their
relief and restoration to health.
But apart from purely financial consdera-
tons, the feelings of humanity, in our kind,
are daily becoming more developed and cul-
| tivated as we grow in civilization; and these
sentiments now more positively and more
| imperatiyely demand that we devote greater
attention and care in their sickness to those
dumb animals, whose entire beings either in
furnishing labor or food, are wholly subjected
to mans control The paper that we refer
to has been prepared by DR.. w. Stump For
1 |, baf, l,o lnf ia
meeting of the Medical Society of Hartford
county.
| We regret to say that many of our people,
without proper information, entertain preju,
diced view of the object and aims of the
| County Medical Society," and we are glad to
have the opportunity of laying this paper be
fore them, to show the wide and liberal range
of useful matters treated by the Society," in
which, as in the present instance, the members
themselves have no more pecuniary interest
than the public generally. WehavG watched
the course of the Society from its beginning
and can truthfully say that instead of its
meeting for the enhancement of professional
fees, as many appear to suppose, their objects
are broad and liberal, and their diversified
discussions are based upon the principles of
preventing disease, and where not preventa-
BILE, the very best and speedest methods OF
curing the sick. Considering that physicians
must live upon the fees they receive for theil
| services, and a great many, as we know, get
but precarious living, this effort on their
part to prevent the diseases, from the treat
ment of which they must derive their support
certainly shows more heroism and less selfish
ness than can be shown by any other profess
sion whatever.
The subject Of fees is rarely referred to in
their meetings in any way, except so far as
| it is necessary to have fixed a general stand
ard for the protection ofphysicians from con-
tentious persons in cases of legal proceedings
| This is not the first time that DR.. Forwood
has urged this subject Veterinary Medicine
before the Society, and he deserves the
thanks of this community for his efforts in
awakening general attention to means for the
prevention of the annual loss of millions Of
dollars worth of animal property.
The country must have educated and sci
ertific veterinarians. The immense value Of
the property at stake-millions of dollars
worth of which may be and has been swept
off by a single cpidemic-ofa durable or pre-
ventablc nature, is too great loss to be per-
mitted to deplete the peoples purses.
We hope that our young men, of good
abilities, who are contemplating the study OF
profession will take this subject into their
serious consideration.
At recent meeting of the Deer Creek Far.
mers' Club the cooperation of the members
was asked in the organization of Il National
I Agricultural Society, at New York, a distin
| gushing feature of which will be the encour-
agement it will afford for the establishment
posed if the project is successful, to endeavol
to secure an appropriation from Congress fol
the establishment of veterinary school at
the Maryland Agricultural College.
| BY an awkward blunder, in making up
the election returns of Cecil county, John A.
Coulson was returned to Annapolis as elected
| County Commissioner instead of James A.
| Coulson. The commission was accordingly
sent in the name of John A. Coulson. The
result is that Mr. James A. Coulson, who
was really elected, has no commission and
there is no way by which he can get one
| The commission of John A. Coulson will not
be taken out, as there is no such person. AT
ter thirty days it will lapse, and the Governor
can then fill the vacancy. While he can APP
point any one he chooses, he will without
! though Republican, was elected by the
people Of Cecil county.
The excellent financial standing of Balti-