152 CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. 



5. Practical in.striictiou in shoeing caiinot be condeiunefl as useless, but it ought to 

 be liniitert to the end proposed; this instruction is on the whole very (Icsirabli?. 



6. The inspection of meats of the butchery is an absolutely essential branch of vet- 

 erinary education. 



IV. 



1. At the end of the second year of study (fourth semester) the students ought to 

 bo examined on the branches they have studied during the two iireceding years. 

 None should enter ou the studies of the third year until he has satisfactorily passed 

 tbis exaniiuation (of candidate, or in physical and natural sciences). 



2. None should be admitted to the examination for veterinariau nntil he has passed 

 that of candidate in veterinary medicine. 



(The examination in veterinary medicine should embrace only those branches 

 which have not formed part of the candidature examination. — Wh-z.) 



(The examination in veterinary medicine should embrace, beside anatomy and phys- 

 iology, all branches of instruction not included in the examination of the candidate. — 

 Millhr.) 



3. The regulations for veterinary exaiaiuatious should, as far as possible, be abso- 

 lutely, or at least essentially, the same for all countries. 



1. The system of residence in tbe school (internal) is not the best for the pursuit 

 of veterinary studies and the social education of veterinarians. 



2. If peculiar circumstances, proper to any country, forbid the abolition of residence 

 (internal), the students should at least be allowed entire liberty outside the prescribed 

 course ; the control of the internal ought to be as liberal as possible. 



3. Obligatory "internal" should be abolished. 



VI. 



Veterinary schools may be independent establishments, or they may be connected 

 with universities or institutions for the higher education; but veterinary medicine 

 should have its special chairs. One cannot but disapprove of institutions in which all 

 branches of veterinary education are divided in a very limited number of university 

 chairs ; such a system is absolutely insufQcieut. 



VII. 



1. Professors in veterinary schools should be possessors of veterinary diplomas ; an 

 exception to this rnle may be admitted in the case of those teaching the preliminary 

 courses of physics and natural sciences. 



2. It is very desirable that veterinarians before being called to a professorship should 

 have practiced veterinary medicine for some years. 



3. The diploma of physician or M. D. should not in itself render the holder eligible 

 to a veterinary professorship. 



4. The professors ought to be selected by preference Irom among the assistants, and 

 upon the j)roposition of the faculty of the school in question. 



5. Finally, to be able always to complete the professional body, there ought to be 

 created numerous places for assistants. 



REASONS. 



Ab the requiieiiients for oiitciiiij; the university are more than caii at 

 proKeut be enforcAMl, aii«l more than is always required for the study of 

 medicine, for polytechnic schools, schools of mines, &c., they should not 



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