340 PRUSSIAN REGULATIONS FOR CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. 



erinary medicine ; clinics ; visiting clinic ; practice in writing legal 

 papers with reference to veterinary police and forensic medicine ; 

 repetitions in anatomy and physiology. 



There is room left for an eighth session in the schedule, which 

 it is to be hoped will be soon added to the curriculum. 



THE PRUSSIAN LAWS AND REGULATIONS FOR THE 

 SUPPRESSION OF CONTAGIOUS ANIMAL DISEASES. 



The first attempt at the organization of a veterinary police, and 

 drafting regulations for the suppression of contagious animal dis- 

 eases in Prussia, dates back to 1803. It has been the object of 

 constant improvement, and it seems that a translation of the prin- 

 cipal parts of these laws can not be without value to the people of 

 this country. We have nothing in a condensed form to which our 

 legislators can refer when drafting regulations for the suppression 

 and prevention of contagious animal diseases ; and as these questions 

 are sooner or later to take no insignificant part in national legisla- 

 tion, their appearance here is justified. 



The supreme supervision of the veterinary institutions of Prussia 

 rests with the Minister of Agriculture, who is assisted by a resident 

 director, and a board of assistants, composed of lawyers and eminent 

 agriculturists. In addition to this there is a veterinary council, the 

 duty of which is to give the decisive opinion with reference to all 

 technical points in relation to veterinary questions. The active 

 members are selected from the teachers at the veterinary school and 

 the department veterinarian of Berlin, with Professor Virchow and 

 other eminent medical counsel. 



In Prussia there were (1879) 36 department veterinarians, 12 so- 

 called veterinary assessors, who rank higher than the above, 16 fron- 

 tier veterinarians, and 407 district veterinarians. These officers have 

 fixed remuneration for their official work, and their traveling ex- 

 penses ; with the exception of the frontier veterinarians, they are 

 almost all permitted to practice ; the latter receive about $800 per 

 year, and enjoy no very enviable positions, from the difficulties and 

 exposures, as well as the comparative isolation of their positions. 

 Each district is further supervised by an " imperial president." The 

 department veterinarians are named by the minister, with the advice 

 of the council, from among those district veterinarians who have 



