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be required at present. The same conditions of admission should be 

 maintained in all veterinary schools, and for all students, national or 

 foreign, for all, indeed, who do not attend as simple auditors. The en- 

 trance examination shoukl be made before a commission of the faculty 

 who best know the acquirements requisite for the pursuit of the study. 



Since the Zurich congress the great additions to veterinary studies 

 in practical chemistry, micrography, «&c., necessitates the extension of 

 the course to four years at least. Wirz thinks even tive years desir- 

 able. 



Hugues' proposal to abolish the chair of special pathology is untena- 

 ble. So long as the clinic does not furnish abundance of material to 

 show and demonstrate to all the students cases of every disease it is 

 impossible to agree to his proposal. 



While recognizing how much veterinary medicine is indebted to hu- 

 man medicine, they cannot admit that the knowledge of the one tits for 

 the teaching of the other. Medical professors are far from comprehend- 

 ing all the requirements of veterinary education, or the exigencies of 

 veterinary practice. Most of them continue ignorant of these from lack 

 of inclination as much as lack of opportunity', and the education suffers 

 proportionally. For professors and assistants alike a veterinary diploma 

 is a sine qua non. 



ACTION OF THE CONGRESS. 



After discussion the following was adopted as the first proposition : 



1. For admission to veterinary studies one must be batchelores lettres or es sciences, 

 tliat is to say, he must have tiuished the studies of the secondary education. 



The second proposition of Miiller and Wirz was adopted, and reads : 



2. There is no call for the creation of veterinarians of different classes, having a 

 different amount of preparatory and veterinary education. 



The third jnoposition Avas adopted with modifications of the second 

 paragraph, so as to drop all reference to practical work, and of the 

 fourth paragraph, so as to provide for two clinical professors in each 

 school, and by the dropi)ing of paragraphs 3 and 5. As altered, it reads^ 

 thus : 



'3. Four years of study at least are requisite to make a full study of veterinary 

 medicine, if that is made to embrace physics and natui'al sciences. 



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

 following branches : physics, chemistry, natural history (geology, mineralogy, botany, 

 and zoology), anatomy, histoloy, jdiysiology, and shoeing. A course of practice and 

 demonstrations in micrograjjliy should always be included. 



(b) Clinical teaching should continue through the whole of the last two years of 

 study. That the jtractical instruction of the students may be complete it is a)>solutely 

 necessary to have besides a stationary and consulting clinic (hospital clinic and poly- 

 clinic), an ambulatory clinic (outside clinic); there ought to be at least two profess" 

 ors of clinic. 



(c) The inspct'tion of meats of the butchery is an absolutely essential branch ot 

 veterinary education. 



The fourth i)roi)osition was modified by adoi)tion of a motion by 



