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This examination takes place in the first week of October of 

 each year by a special commission named by the " cultus " minister, 

 three members being professors of the school, and one each repre- 

 senting a gymnasium and real school. The examination costs five 

 guldens, and goes to the examiners. Students must not be over 

 twenty-six or under eighteen years of age ; consideration is some- 

 times taken in case of students whose studies have been uninten- 

 tionally interrupted in a scientific or agricultural academy. The 

 course extends over three years, of two sessions each, as follows : 



First Year {First Session). — Introduction to the study of veter- 

 inary medicine for two weeks, three hours each week ; zootomy of 

 all domestic animals, weekly, five hours; general chemistry, weekly, 

 three hours ; breeding, weekly, three hours ; theoretic horseshoe- 

 ing, weekly, two hours ; dissection and practical horseshoeing, ar- 

 ranged in the hours not taken up by other branches. 



{Second Session.) — Topographical zootomy, weekly, five hours ; 

 organic chemistry, with especial reference to physiological and 

 pathological chemistry, weekly, three hours ; breeding, five hours ; 

 medicinal botany, weekly, two hours ; dissection and practical horse- 

 shoeing, as before. 



Second Year {Third Session). — General pathology and patho- 

 logical anatomy, weekly, three hours ; physiology with microscop- 

 ical practice, weekly, two hours ; pharmacognosy, materia medica, 

 and art of writing prescriptions, weekly, three hours ; clinic, daily ; 

 dissection, and the preparation of two anatomical subjects, in hours 

 to be fixed at convenience ; autopsies ; practical horseshoeing. 



{Fourth Session.) — Pathological zootomy, weekly, three hours ; 

 physiology, with microscopical practice, weekly, two hours ; ob- 

 stetrics, weekly, two hours ; theoretic use of instruments and band- 

 ages, weekly, two hours ; clinic, daily ; autopsies ; practice in chem- 

 ical laboratory ; horseshoeing. 



TJiird Year {Fifth Session). — Medical and surgical clinic, daily ; 

 special pathology and therapeutics, weekly, three hours ; veterinary 

 surgery, weekly, two hours ; practice in operative surgery, weekly, 

 three hours ; exercise in making reports of forensic cases and in 

 reference to veterinary police ; animal pests and veterinary police, 

 weekly, three hours ; cattle and meat inspection, weekly, one hour ; 

 horseshoeing. 



{Sixth Session.) — Clinics, and other branches as before ; history 

 of veterinary medicine, weekly, one hour ; horseshoeing. 



The school also has a special course of two years for medical men 

 and wound-doctors. 



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