I. STATE SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE 



The Belgian School of Veterinary Medicine dates 

 from 1882. It was founded in Brussels under the protec- 

 tion of the Government by D r Graux, with the assistance 

 of D r Froidmont and the Veterinary Surgeons Brogniez, 

 Crevecoeur, Delwart and Gaudy. 



In i836 the Government adopted this School, organised 

 it at the expense of the State and gave it the title of State 

 School of Veterinary Medicine and Agriculture. Later, 

 owing to the separation of the agricultural instruction, 

 this title was reduced to the present denomination, State 

 School of Veterinary Medicine. 



Under the old management, from i836 to 1890, the 

 instruction given at the School of Veterinary Medicine 

 comprised, besides the different branches relative to 

 Zootechny and Veterinary medicine, two groups of sub- 

 jects, one relative to the Natural Sciences; Physics, Che- 

 mistry, Botany, the elements of Zoology; the other relative 

 to Medicine and Veterinary Economy : Descriptive and 

 Comparative Anatomy, General Anatomy, Physiology, 

 Pharmacology, Therapeutics, general, internal and surgi- 

 cal Pathology, Zootechny, etc. 



These subjects formed the object of four years of study 

 and of two examinations, one for the candidateship and 

 one for the degree in veterinary medicine. 



The first examination, held after the second year's 

 course, had then a mixed character; the veterinary candi- 

 dateship comprised the candidateship of Natural Science 

 and the candidateship of Veterinary Medicine. 



After having decided on the suppression of the boarding 

 establishment in 1888, the Government thought it useful to 

 make a more serious modification in the regulations for the 

 study and practice of veterinary medicine, and had a law 

 passed placing the instruction of veterinary medicine on 

 the same level as that of human medicine. 



By the terms of that law, in order to be accepted as stu- 

 dent at the State School of Veterinary Medicine, and to be 

 admitted to the examination of veterinary candidate, a 

 person must hold the diploma of Candidate of Natural 



