22 the modern horse doctor. 



for veterinary knowledge. In conelusion, we observe, that the 

 veterinary science has to be built and reared on facts, recorded 

 facts, the result of practical experience, for the understanding is 

 incapable of acting on innumerable facts from the memory alone j 

 hence our need of the written experience of scientific men. Such 

 writings furnish the practitioner with the power, aided 'by his 

 own observation, in discriminating between maladies which are 

 often confounded, to the great injury of the science. 



It is useless, therefore, to suppose that the veterinary art can 

 be acquired at the forge, plough, or in the stable, without prelimi- 

 nary education ; and then but very few could spare the time to 

 study the art and produce records of their experience*. The 

 length of time necessary for it, the intellectual labor, and the 

 weariness of such pursuit, are obstacles not easily surmounted. 

 Every one to his trade, then. In order to understand how the 

 veterinary science is to be studied, so that men can comprehend 

 its legitimate object, — the why and wherefore of disease, and the 

 modus operandi of medicine, — we must have the same facilU. 

 ties here that now exist in Europe within her veterinary uni- 

 versities. 



There are hundreds and thousands of young men in these 

 United States undecided what to do for a living. TVe say unto 

 such, Come over and help us, for " the harvest is ripe, but the 

 laborers are few." Now is the time to come to the rescue, and 

 carry out the intentions of the veterinary art, and thus change the 

 current of oublic opinion in its favor. 



GREAT BENEFITS DERIVED PROM STUDYING COMPARATIVE 

 ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY. 



" If medical men have been guilty of gross errors, it is because they have neg- 

 lected to dissect brutes." — Galen. 



TVith a view of showing how much human medicine is in- 

 debted to comparative investigations on the bodies of animals, let 

 us briefly consult the records of the past. 



