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veterinary physician and surgeon stands as high in 

 public estimation as the regular practitioners of the 

 healing art. In some of the German schools it is made 

 a part of the duty of every student in medicine to 

 attend a series of lectures upon this subject. 



No such establishments exist in this country, and 

 the want of information on the subject is truly deplor- 

 able. Fine animals are continually sacrificed to the 

 ignorance and prejudice of their possessors. The 

 trustees of this society have originated and diffused 

 many important and difficult improvements in the 

 agriculture of this part of the country, and it seems 

 well worthy of their public spirit and influence to 

 make an effort to introduce a better practice in the 

 treatment of the injuries of animals. 



The most useful mode of accomplishing this object 

 would be by the foundation of a veterinary school, but 

 as the funds of the society would not enable them to 

 execute so large a plan, it might, perhaps, be more 

 judicious to give encouragement to some individual to 

 go abroad, for the purpose of instructing himself suffi- 

 ciently to give lectures, and to explain the best known 

 modes of treatment. The committee recommend that 

 $600 be appropriated in this way, a part of which sum 

 might be paid in advance, and a part after the pro- 

 posed lectures had been given in a manner satisfactory 

 to the trustees. 



What was thus recommended was carried into effect 

 with this variation only, that an arrangement was 

 made with Dr. Edward Brooks, of Boston, who was 

 already a resident and student of medicine and sur- 

 gery in Paris, that he should devote sufficient time to 

 veterinary studies to qualify himself to give, after his 

 return, a course of lectures as proposed. In the fol- 

 lowing year. Dr. Warren was authorized to procure 

 in Paris, for the society, an anatomical model of a 



