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out duly noticing the man who did more to give it fame than, 

 in all probability, all the others combined who have taught within 

 its walls. About the thirtieth year of this century really marks the 

 birth of the scientific tendency in veterinary medicine. At this 

 time Germany was far beyond auy other country in the quality of 

 the work she was giving to the world, so far as veterinary medicine 

 was concerned. Gurlt, Haubner, Hertwig, and Hering were the 

 four, among others, who took part in this work. Of these four, 

 Eduard Hering was by no means the least. He was born in Stutt- 

 gart on the 20th of March, 1799. Dying recently, he enjoyed the 

 well-merited fruits of his years of labor, as pensioner of his Govern- 

 ment, but a free man, nevertheless, for the services of such men are 

 not to be counted by a few dollars paid yearly in supporting them 

 in comfort in their old age. It is impossible for me to give even a 

 brief account of the literary work of this man. It covers three 

 finely printed pages in the historical sketch I am now using. He 

 was the best historian living on veterinary literature, and in this re- 

 spect may be ranked with Schrader, Huzard, and Ercolani, the four 

 being the only men who have been especially noted in this regard. 

 He also edited the "Repertorium der Thierheilkunde," 1840 to 

 date, a journal in which he endeavored to give to German readers 

 a digest of all important matters and articles which came to pass in 

 connection with their profession in other lands. His " Special Pa- 

 thology and Therapeutics," and his " Book for Horsemen," are still 

 well worthy of study ; the latter is beautifully illustrated by the 

 celebrated Baumeister, also professor at the school, and is bought 

 up so closely as a work of real art that it is impossible to get a copy, 

 it being out of print for many years. His work on operative sur- 

 gery should be translated into English, it being much more practical 

 and condensed than the two-volume A'erbose and indistinct work 

 of Peuch and Toussaint ; a compendium, critically revised, would 

 be a grand thing, but deliver us from the original ! But the one 

 act which has given Hering the most fame, the one act which 

 did more for the elevation of veterinary medicine into a science 

 than all the work of all the other professors at the school, the 

 one act which has made his name immortal as a discoverer of a 

 new fact, was that Hering was the first to experimentally demon- 

 strate the velocity of the circulation in the living organism, pub- 

 lished in " Tiedemann und Trevirarnus Zeitschrift fur Physiolo- 

 gie," Heidelberg, 1828. 



