15f) CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. 



fields to be studied. In addition to all this we are to-day confronted by 

 the great question of the life-history of disease oemis, which opens up 

 a new world in i)atholo.i;y, and wliich can be nowhere so appropriately 

 investigated as in a veterinary college. This the (rovernment owes at 

 once to the great livestock interests of the nation, and to the cause of 

 sanitary science as applied to the human population. The maladies 

 transmissible between man and animals must be investigated through 

 the latter, and from this man will profit directly by the restriction or 

 extinction of these affections, and, indirectly, by analogies with the newly 

 discovered truths in the case of other afltections i)eculiar to the human 

 race. 



In five of the state veterinary colleges of the Continent which I have 

 visited the grounds cover a large area, though situated in a city, as at 

 Berlin, Utrecht, Brussels, and Lyons, and are provided with dwellings 

 and offices for the faculty, library, boarding accommodations for stu- 

 dents, museums, dissecting-rooms, rooms for autopsies, laboratories for 

 physics, chemistry, pathological anatomy, microscopy, and biology, 

 pharmacy, lecture-rooms and instrument and retiring-rooms for the 

 different departments, surgical operating theaters, furnace for burning 

 infecting products, horseshoeing forge, halls for clinics (averaging 350 

 by 30 feet each), provided with forge, means of fastening for operations, 

 &c., and separate buildings for the accommodation of the different kinds 

 of hospital patients (solipeds, cattle, sheep, and swine and dogs), and 

 with special stables for those of each kind suffering from contagious 

 diseases. These last were paved with granite or hard- burned bricks, 

 set in cement, and lined for 8 feet from the floor with enameled tile, set 

 in cement, while all the fittings (stall, rack, manger, &c.), were of iron 

 to facilitate disinfection. Then each school had its botanical garden^ 

 and in some the different field crops were cultivated, and several speci- 

 mens of each of the best breeds of domestic animals of the same or 

 adjacent countries were kept for purposes of instruction. 



These state veterinary schools further have bursaries for poor but de- 

 serving students, the French Government providing no less than 240 of 

 these under conditions which demand excellence alike in deportment 

 and study. The minister of war can further send a certain number of 

 students (in France CO) to be educated free for service in the cavalrj^ 

 and artillery.— J. L. 



4. THE RIGHT OF VETERINARIANS TO FURNISH MEDI- 

 CINES FOR THEIR PATIENTS. 



This subject, introduced by Rossignol, apropos of a recommendatiori 

 of a commission of the French legislature to abolish this right, wa» 

 shortly discussed, and after securing a statement from the attendant 

 representation of each country in Europe and America, as to the practice 

 in that country, the congress decided as follows : 



