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sites in the museum of the school is probably greater than those of 

 any three schools combined. lie also gave us the tirst book of zo- 

 opathologieal anatomy, which has only been followed by Briickmiil- 

 ler. His last work, on aninuil monstrosities, issued when he was 

 nearly ninety years old, is an ornament to the })rofession, although 

 Gurlt's only connection with the school was as teacher and director, 

 he being an M. D. lie gave as the number of anatomical specimens 

 in the museum of the school in 18(i9 — (!,4:U8, which were mu.>tly col- 

 lected by him, and mounted under his supervision ; this number 

 has been steadily increasing under his able successor in ])athology. 

 Professor Schutz, so that, although I have not the catalogue number, 

 there must be at present in the museum some eight to ten thousand 

 specimens. His collection of fetal specimens, illustrating their peri- 

 odical development, is one of the ornaments of the school. 



In 1823 another M. D., Ilcrtwig, was attached to the school 

 after studying veterinary medicine at the most prominent institu- 

 tions of the world at the expense of the Government. It was these 

 two men who raised this school to the high defjree of renown which 

 it enjoyed up to about 1850. Ilertwig has been one of the greatest 

 contributors to veterinary literature that has ever lived ; he is a con. 

 temporary of Ilering, Ilaubner, and, of couree, Gurlt, who with 

 Spinola, as practical author, served to make the German name so 

 famous in the middle of this century. His studies of rabies, sup- 

 ported by numerous experiments, opened a new light upon the sub- 

 ject, and have never been much improved upon ; these, with other 

 contributions to canine pathology, in unison with those of Gcrlach 

 and Fiirstenberg, have served to make up about all there is, or has 

 been written upon the diseases of the dog, other than a few practi- 

 cal hints gained from experience. Ilis work on nuitcria medica 

 was not excelled by any in human medicine in its day, and is 

 founded largely on personal experiments. His surgery and work on 

 operations are by no means antiquated. As the ycai-s increased with 

 these men, the school slowly pa.'jsed into decline ; its wonted activity 

 was no more, but no want is felt long in this world before the right 

 man is found to fill it. Ix'isering most beautifully jiictures this con- 

 dition in his obituary notice of Gerlach, who was called from Han- 

 over to fill this place : '' Slower and slower went the machine, 

 which was chietly to be sought in the increasing years of her once 

 active men, who were no more able to keep pace with the rapid 

 march of science, and who also nourished the opinion that new 

 things are not always the best. But the machine moved again with 

 new fire, partly with permanent and partly with transient powers. 



