302 THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE VETERINARY SCHOOLS. 



Patients treated hy the Students from 1821 to 1871. 

 Horses : 



In the school hospital 18,091 



Visited by students outside the school 5,896 



Used for anatomy and operative practice ... 684 



Asses and mules 45 



24,716 



Dogs : 



In school hospital 5,270 



Brought in by police 755 



6,025 



Cattle : 



In school 270 



Outside 16,794 



17,064 



Other animals 2,652 



Autopsies 2,722 



Whole number of animals treated in school for fifty years.. . 53,179 



"Whole number of students in same period, 2,140. Of these, the 

 following are recorded as having emigrated to America : 



L. Bickard, 1841-'42; Alois Ebach, 1865-'67; Will. Eberhardt, 

 lS38-'39 ; J. F. Erpf, 1831-'32 ; A. Fritz, 1841-'42 ; B. Fusseneg- 

 ger, 1844-'45 ; Aug. Gleich, studied winter of 1860 ; J. Haussler, 

 1840; G. Halm, 1842; L. D. Hess, 1824 ; Chr. Horz, 1849-'50 ; 

 A. Ibach, 1886-68 ; G. F. Liitze, J. E. Mack, 1864-'65 ; J. Eitters, 

 C. Shock, J. J. Schwarz, J. Stiefel, Chr. Troscher, C. E. Wolff. 



The school at Stuttgart is, I hope, soon to be among the " have 

 beens." At one time it enjoyed quite an exalted reputation, but 

 since the retirement of Dr. Hering, Sr., it has steadily been going 

 into decline, and the students becoming fewer and fewer. This 

 is in part owing to a very injurious stand adhered to by some of its 

 teachers, and which was once quite general in Germany, viz., that 

 a school should give two different forms of education, and graduate 

 first and second class veterinarians — the first for the use of the state, 

 the latter for the people. The nonsense of such an idea should be 

 apparent to any one, but to no one so quickly as to a veterinarian. 

 Of one hundred students graduating from a given class and a given 

 school, and enjoying instruction uniting to the fullest possible de- 

 gree a scientific foundation and practical execution, not all w^ill be 

 successful practitioners, and but few suitable for state work, and 

 still fewer for the highest state work — perhaps one of the hundred 

 may make a really gifted and capable teacher. Let the education be 

 as perfect as possible : the world's test will do the winnowing. 



It will not do to leave even this brief notice of this school with- 



