314 THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE VETERINARY SCHOOLS. 



the scientifically educated man, but is content with the bounds and 

 bars which surround him. The school was to take only such stu- 

 dents from the masses as were fitted to go back again to the same. 

 Their knowledge was to be limited to what was necessary to their 

 livelihood, and to read and write sufficient to support the memory. 

 No other preliminary knowledge was considered necessary. They 

 were entirely wanting in a preparatory scientific education or spirit. 



You will permit me to describe to you the method of instruction 

 which Bojanus would have introduced into the schools, especially 

 as two teachers of modern times (Director Rueff, of Stuttgart, and 

 Professor Plug, of Giessen) would have us follow in the same di- 

 rection. 



Bojanus writes: "It is the duty of the practical veterinarian to 

 cure the sick animals belonging to the public. His office, which 

 does not belong to the most respected, brings him constantly in 

 relation with the commonest people, to whose ideas and conceptions 

 he must adapt himself if he will not endanger his success and let it 

 pass over into the hands of quacks and herdsmen. He busies him- 

 self with disgusting work in dirty stables, and all his endeavors and 

 privations are rewarded with but a scanty income which scarcely 

 covers his necessities, and, at the most, permits him to enter society 

 as an ordinary artisan." Bojanus then goes on to say that "the 

 scientifically educated veterinarian is unsuited to such work, and 

 could not lower himself to the necessary level, and is therefore 

 never looked upon by the people as a practical man, and, there- 

 fore, it is the duty of the schools to educate practical, not scientific, 

 veterinarians." These words of Bojanus justify ns in concluding 

 that he knew right well the qualifications of a scientific veterina- 

 rian, but he intentionally put all he could in the way of their edu- 

 cation. On the contrary, Bojanus would have the teachers scientific 

 men in order that they might discover new methods of treatment 

 and give them to the students, who were supposed to follow im- 

 plicitly in these ruts in practice. To the end that the state may 

 have such teachers, Bojanus would have another form of school, a 

 higher, scientific school. In these were to be taken the candidates 

 for teachers' positions, with a complete scientific education from 

 the lap of the academy. Bojanus either did not see, or passed in- 

 tentionally by, the fact that the state needs scientifically educated 

 veterinarians for the purposes of veterinary police and forensic 

 medicine, and for the perfection of the breeds of the domestic 

 animals. The second class of veterinarians were there only to be 

 curers, and a very small class of scientific veterinarians to develop 



