53 DEPARTMENT EEPORTS. 



REPORT OF THE PROFESSOR OF VETERINARY SCIENCE. 



Jo the President Michigan State Agricultural College : 



Sir, — I have the honor to submit the following report of work done in the 

 Veterinary department of this institution during the year 1886-7: 



As has been the custom, our collegiate course began with the fall term of 

 1886, and our special line of work was directed towards giving a course of 

 lectures, upon the anatomy of such domestic animals as the horse, the ox, 

 the sheep, and the hog. The lectures during the term were first of all 

 illustrated by means of very handsome and accurate paper models, obtained 

 from the world-renowned Dr. Auzoux's papier-mache model manufactory 

 in France ; and also a number of well prepared skeletons, put up in this 

 country. 



Having disposed of our subject in the class-room, the students purchased a 

 horse, and we reviewed the anatomy of it again in the dissecting room. I 

 would here like to say that practical dissection has become so popular with 

 our senior students that the faculty have recently added it to the required 

 course in veterinary science, and provision is made in our present catalogue 

 for it, during the latter part of the fall term. 



The spring term of 1887 was devoted to lectures upon the diseases of those 

 organs which we had been studying the anatomy of during the autumn, and 

 which occupied our attention for the first four days of the week, the last of 

 the week being given up to materia medica. When it was possible for me to do 

 so, I performed operations upon living subjects before the class, and showed 

 them how to secure and restrain animals under different circumstances. 



The summer term of this year began with a description of the examination 

 of horses for soundness prior to purchase, conducted first of all in the class- 

 room, with diagrams as means of illustration ; and then in our operating 

 room, with live horses to illustrate our points. We then continued our 

 course from day to day upon pathology and materia medica, not forgetting 

 to introduce the live animal at all times, when it was possible to do so. 



I may add that the steady growth of our museum assisted me in illustrat- 

 ing the pathological changes which take place between health and disease 

 in a manner that I had not been able to do before, for want of certain actual 

 specimens. 



Besides my regular class work, I delivered my Wednesday afternoon 

 lecture in the chapel in order, and issued my semi-annual bulletins according 

 to law. In the capacity of State Veterinarian I have attended to the require- 

 ments of the State Live Stock Sanitary Commission, and have had the honor 

 of being reappointed to the office by our present governor. I attended four 

 of our Farmers' Institutes during the winter of 1887. 



In the early part of the present year I received a request from Purdue 

 University of Indiana to give a course of sixty lectures there, during our 

 vacation, but through unforeseen circumstances will not be able to do so. 



I have also been requested to deliver a course of eight lectures at the 

 Farmers' Institutes of Wisconsin, which I hope to be able to accomplish 

 during the coming winter. 



At the annual meeting of the Michigan Veterinary Medical Association I 

 "was elected president of that society, and have read papers upon veterinary 

 topics at both its meetings this year. , 



