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inary medicine sboulcl correspond to those acquired in the second (chiss) of a school 

 preparatory to university studies. 



Those who have not pursued the course of such an institution should not be ad- 

 mitted to the special veterinary studies "ntil they prove that they are possessed of 

 an education corre8])onding to that of the cUiss above named. 



2. Three years of special studies at least are necessary to secure the rank of 

 veterinarian. 



There is no call for the creation of veterinarians of ditferent classes based on differ- 

 ences in the degree of instruction. 



3. Veterinary schools may be separate, independent establishments, or joined to 

 by universities or other institutions of higher learning, but their instruction should be 

 special chairs. We cannot but condemn the arraugoinent in which a single professor 

 is charged with the duty of educating veterinarians, this mode of teaching being ab- 

 solutely insufficient. 



4. An organization of the instruction conformed to the above principles should be 

 adopted above all when the practice of veterinary medicine is well established and 

 regulated. 



PROPOSITIOXS OF MULLER AND WIHZ. 



1. The preparatory studies demanded for the study of veterinary medicine ought to 

 be the same as those exacted of the student of human medicine. 



2. As for various reasons this lirst principle cannot yet be enforced, we ought at least 

 to require that all who wish to enter on the study of veterinary medicine should at 

 least possess the acquirements necessary to admit them to the highest classes of a su- 

 perior school giving an ordinary goodv education. 



As an institution giving an ordinary good education, we mean those schools which 

 give a right to students that have completed their course to admission to the higher 

 or university studies. (Gymnasiums, lycennis, atheneiis, Latin schools, colleges), 

 {and superior professional schools, Bealschulen, erstcr ordnnng, of Germany), (Wirz 

 and Miiller), in which Latin is obligatory (Miiller). 



3. Candidates unprovided with a certificate of admission to the first class of one 

 of these schools should show by a special examination that thej' are possessed of aa 

 equivalent education. 



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There is no call for the creation of veterinarians of differentclasses having a differ. 

 ent amount of preparatory and veterinary education. 



III. 



1. Four years' study, at least, are requisite to make'a full study of veterinary med- 

 icine, if that is made to embrace i)hysical and natural sciences. 



2. The instruction of the first two years (four first semesters) should embrace the 

 following Ijranches : physics, chemistry, natural history (geology, mineralogy, l)otany> 

 and zoology), anatomy, histology, physiology, and shoeing, with the practical work 

 aff aching to them. A course of practice and demonstrations in micrography should 

 always be included. 



3. In the same period may be taught the zootechnic branches, comprehending the 

 natural histoiy of domestic animals, the exterior, and zootechny proper. 



4. Clinical teaching should continue through the whole of the last two years of 

 study. That the practical instruction of the stuchMits may be complete it is absohitely 

 necessary to have beside a stationary and consulting clinic (hospital clinic and p<)ly. 

 olinic), an ambulatory clinic (outside cliinc). 



