308 THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE VETERINARY SCHOOLS. 



laboratory. The above-mentioned historical sketch, from which I 

 have taken these few facts, gives a list of all the students, their 

 place of birth, time of entrance, and whether they received a diplo- 

 ma or not, from the year 1820 to 1877 ; from which we see that 

 during that time 1,269 students were recorded upon the books : many 

 of these never stood their examination ; among the latter will be 

 found, in all probability, quite a number of " graduates of a German 

 school " (?) now practicing in this country. 



The present corps of teachers is as follows (1877) : 

 Medical Councilors. — K. Guenther, Director ; Professor Bege- 

 mann, Professor Dr. Dammaim, Dr. Harms, Dr. Lustig, Dr. Babe, 

 Dr. Bnicher, Dr. Eichbaum, Vet. Ernst (assistant). 



The School at Munich. 



Instead of offering an imperfect historical sketch of this institu- 

 tion, it seems more conformable with the purposes of this book to 

 offer to your consideration a translation of the following address, 

 " Upon the Necessity for the Reform of Veterinary Education in Ger- 

 many, as proved by the History of the Munich School" by my friend 

 Professor Johann Feser, of that institution, delivered August 6, 

 1873 ; the more so as there is much contained therein of unquestion- 

 able importance to the people of this country, and further, that the 

 author is one of the most advanced thinkers as well as accomplished 

 scientists in the veterinary profession of our day : 



" The veterinary schools have assumed no less a task than the 

 education of completely qualified veterinarians, for their graduates 

 have a manifold service to perform to states interested in the 

 breeding of domestic animals, which can only be well done by a 

 com])lete scientific and practical education, united to great diligence 

 and unceasing activity by the veterinarian himself. 



" The veterinarian must not only be capable of performing the 

 practical duties of his profession when called upon by the public, 

 but he has much higher duties ; he must at the same time act as 

 counselor and protector of the state, and that portion of its citizens 

 interested in the breeding and rearing of domestic animals, thereby 

 contributing to the nation's welfare by keeping distant and suppress- 

 ing those pests which carry death and desolation in their path. 



" The chief task of the veterinarian lies in keeping the domestic 

 animals in health, and in exerting a favorable influence toward 

 their perfection by aiding, as educated advisers, the p>rogressive de- 

 velopment of breeding in the land (to which may well be added, and 

 in preventing many diseases of human beings caused by unsuitable 



