TUE VETERINARY IXSTITCTIOXS OF PRUSSIA. 33 1 



Practice and lectures upon auscultation and percussion form a very 

 strong point in the clinical instruction. There are, during the last 

 half year of a graduating class, two chusses of students in the hos- 

 pital, those of the lower acting as assistants to their seniors. On 

 the graduation of the latter, the othei*s then have a full year to 

 themselves, when the same coui"se is again pni-sued. Everything 

 necessary to absolutely perfect instruction is present at this school, 

 the ffuidin": <jenius to set things in the right direction being alone 

 necdeil. 



The following statistics will give some idea of the practical dis- 

 cipline which this school offers to its students, and which is not 

 c(pialed by any other in the world. 



In 1875 the following animals were received in the hosj^ital, or 

 treated elsewhere by the students : 



In the clinic, 2,333 horses, 2 cattle, 2 sheep, 3 swine — 2,340. 



In the dog-clinic (dogs, cats, etc., mostly dogs) — 3,308. 



In the free clinic, 4,459 horses, 5 goats, 2 swine — 4,466. 



Visiting clinic,* 208 cattle, 49 sheep, 11 goats, 191 swine — 519. 

 Grand total, 10,093 animals. 



The number of herds also visited was thirty. 



The number of surgical operations performed at the school was 

 542. 



In 1876 the number of patients taken into the clinic, or visited, 

 was 11,537. 



In one of the stables is the forge of the school. 



The expenses of this institution, from the first quarter of 1878 

 to the end of the first quarter of 1879, were 157,670 marks, or $39,- 

 417.50; derived as follows : 



From the hospital and students' fees 01,100 raarlcs,t or $22,797 60 



" " state funds 00,480 " " 10,020 00 



Total $30,417 50 



The money granted by the state is more or less, according to 

 the needs of the institution ; and we see that, during this year, when 

 but little building was carried on, the oxiKjnses of the school ex- 

 ceeded the income by over $10,0(»(). 



All the teachers of the institution, na well as other officials and 

 servants, have free residence found them. All the professors and 



* The institution ha^ four horso.o, and suitnblo vehicle?* for this purpose, and such 

 visits are made daily, four students at a time going with a certain teacher. 

 f A mark is a quarter of a dollar. 



