422 THE MEANS OF PREVENTION. 



which alone there is any hope for finally arriving at the causes of 

 disease, or the means for their prevention. 



4. It should be an institution where carefully detailed experi- 

 ments could be made with different kinds and mixtures, as food for 

 animals, in their relation to their use as beef, pork, mutton, milk, 

 etc., as food for human beings. 



5. It should be an institution which the Government could always 

 use for any necessary purposes, or to which farmers or other persons 

 could send suspected food, dead animals, or portions of the same, or 

 other things in relation to their health, for experiment, research, or 

 proper investigation. 



6. It should be an institution which would supply men properly 

 educated to become veterinary teachers in the respective State agri- 

 cultural schools. 



(a.) "With relation to the veterinary instruction suitable to stu- 

 dents at agricultural schools, it is my opinion that it should be lim- 

 ited to anatomy and physiology of the domestic animals, hygiene 

 and dietetics, horseshoeing, a good education in relation to the con- 

 tagious animal diseases and their prevention, and forensic medicine, 

 which means examination as to soundness, etc. All instruction in 

 special pathology, or therapeutics, as well as surgery, is to be care- 

 fully avoided, for it only leads to the increase of the already too 

 extended number of empirics, or, what is still worse, quacks. 



1. It should supply the necessary number of veterinarians for 

 State work of every kind. 



"While these are the principal demands which we have a right to 

 make upon such an institution, there are many advantages connected 

 with it which, although negatively stated heretofore, should now be 

 repeated in a positive manner. 



"While, in advocating one school for the nation, I do not deny 

 the right of States to individual schools, yet I truly believe that 

 if such a school is founded in correspondence to the plan herein 

 stated, both State schools and private schools, chartered by States, 

 must soon suffer a speedy death, if ever allowed even a moment's 

 existence. 



In one school we have but one standard of education, and that 

 the highest practicable. It may be argued that " opposition is the 

 soul of progress." To which I answer that the opposition should 

 be seated in the minds of the teachers, assistants, and tutors of the 

 school, as well as its numerous graduates, all of which would tend 

 to keep the school alive and active. 



By having a uniform course of study, and only one grade of 



