Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-09-20
TAKES SLAP
AT QUACKS
DIR. ROWLAND sTARTLEs STATE
= VETERINARIANS
COLLEGE STANDARD NoTAs HIGH
AS EuRoPE's
"Past Training Has Been Short cu'
to Limited Knowledge, and Pub
lie Opinion Requires
Change Soon"

DR. w. 3. Rowland last night handed
ouacks without gloves at the meeting
of the southern auxiliary OF the Cal-
fornia State Veterinary Medical associa-
ton.
The occasion was the quarterly meet
ing which brought veterinarians from all
over Southern California to the annual
banquet at Levy's.
"The time is long past" said DIR. Row
land, when the qualifications for a
young man to enter a veterinary col
iege consists of a horsey air and ped
igree of several past generations who
were horse doctors before him.
1.-THE successful veterinarians of today
are men of brains and above all educa-
ton and refinement
Need College Men
1.-THE veterinary surgeon of the future
will be required to be a college man and
with this will also be demanded dignity,
sincerity of purpose and one who win
work zealously to make his calling the
peer of any.
1.-THE day is passing rapidly when he
will be classed as a horse doctor and
whose only title when addressed Is doc
lowing to the demands for men of
brains, trained mind will only satisfy
the owner of an animal or the require
ments of a sanitary official.
"ThS time Is now near the zenith for
trained veterinarians.
THAT there is a stigma attached to
our profession, none of you will deny.
The cause and effect is ours to remedy.
.The cause is due chiefly to too low a
standard of education.
1.-The remedy-discourage any act of
veterinarians or employers that tends to
lower that standard; but to my mind
nothing will raise the standard of our
profession with a greater degree of GER
tainty than to discourage young men from
entering the profession who are not well
educated, intelligent, clean and manly.
Three Rs Not Sufficient
at is to be regretted that in many of
our colleges the knowledge of the rule
of the three RS is sufficient to allow a
young man to enroll his name on the
college roster.
"In the future the knowledge of the
record and pedigree of horse will rot
be considered as equivalent to the man
who knows veterinary medicine as a
science.
Fellow members I am not detractor,
nor am I above my chosen profession,
but you know in your secret hearts that
we have all been too selfish, and that
so long as we are making money, let
Tie luluIc lOOh Oul LUZ lloCil'
1--WE have been too apt to ignore the
evils that beset our profession
II refer particularly to the licensed
'quack' and the graduated quack'. and
our minds thus clouded forget the other
side of the picture-the future of this
grand profession, a profession that in
it's progress, as it should and will be-
will have no peer, as the very life and
existence of the human race, and the
an fhe advanced
Veterinarian.
/, i "1Nle study of comparative medicine anc
of pathology, such as ours, requires mer
OF greater mental training than that OF
Nany other profession.
N Public Opinion Changes
"a change will come in public opinion
when ignorance, always the subject OF
jest with the satirist, is displaced by
knowledge
when the standard of education for
admission to our colleges will have been
raised to meet the requirements of sur
gerry and medicine, to us shall be the
credit of new discoveries in medicine,
pathology and bacteriology
1.-The present and future of our profess
sion is not one of a mere mixer and
administrator of nostrums.
II am of the firm opinion that the
standard of our colleges Is not SO high
as that of many foreign ones, such as
France Germany and even Italy.
LET us hope that change may soon
occur so that it cannot be said, as 1t
is said now We must go to Abort, Dres-
den or Turin to round out our training
when such a change comes, we will
have veterinarians who will have scien-
tifc efficiency proved knowledge follow
ing a thorough training. To great
extent our training has been a short
cut to obtain what can only be an ex-
tremely limited knowledge and the
success thus obtained is accomplished at
the expense of our patrons.
'In this age, which is tingling with In
tellectual activity, when remarkable
strides are being made; when the results
OF scientific researches are being an
nounced to the world, whose fault is 1t
that we have no Bouleys nor Pasteurs?'