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INSTITUTIONS OF GERMANY. 



BERLIN. 



Through the courtesy of His Excellency the British Am- 

 bassador, who sent the Commercial Attache to introduce me 

 to Professor Dickerhoff, who is Dean of the Veterinary 

 College, Berlin, he arranged for our meeting with Professor 

 Ostertag, who is bacteriologist and is the highest authority in 

 Germany on meat and milk inspection and diseases of animals 

 generally. 



We first spent some time visiting the various departments 

 of this great Veterinary College, the external and internal 

 Cliniques for all animals, but chiefly horses and dogs. The 

 large number of lame and sick animals treated almost free, 

 being charged for medicines only, which are daily brought 

 there affords ample material for clinical instruction. The 

 large well arranged and fully equipped stables filled with 

 patients kept and treated for merely the cost of the food. 

 The Dog hospital is always full ; here all diseases, injuries 

 and surgical operations can be thoroughly studied. In the 

 shoeing forge, is a large collection of shoes of all kinds ; that 

 most in use being hollow and filled with tarry rope which is 

 found to prevent slipping on the asphalt pavements. We 

 were shown the practical application of the X Ray photo- 

 graphs in discovering fractures and foreign bodies, especially 

 in dogs and other small animals. We were shown the museum 

 and took special interest in the collection of Entozoa, which 

 is probably the most complete in Europe. 



Specimens of preserved grasses were shown in a half per 

 cent solution of Formalin as fresh as when cut. 



Professor Ostertag next conducted us to his laboratory, 

 where we were entertained and instructed, Mr. Leroy M. 

 Land, D.V.S., of Lexington, Kentucky, U.S., acting as inter- 

 preter. The Professor showed us cultures of various micro- 



