VETERINARY EDUCATION. I3 



in Warsaw, and, with the title of colonel, was in the 

 Pietro Pavosky stud staif of Alexander II. of Russia 

 for many years." 



Veterinary surgery is considered an important 

 science? 



*' In all countries under military rule it ranks with 

 the highest of the learned professions." 



Indeed! you know we rather look down upon a 

 man here, who can find nothing better to do than to 

 doctor animals. One can hardly insult a physician 

 more, than to ask him to set a dog's broken leg or 

 otherwise prescribe for him. 



" Yes, but it is very different in Europe. There 

 the veterinary students are taken from the best of 

 the nobility, from the cleverest and best educated 

 sons of gentlemen. In Russia, Germany, Austria, 

 and other countries under military government, 

 horses are not sacrificed, if by any amount of care and 

 attention, they can be saved. A Russian general 

 argues that ignorance is inexcusable, where the ill- 

 ness or wounds of a horse are concerned ; and as fine 

 horses are scarcer than common soldiers they are well 

 taken care of. " 



Then the soldiers are not of so much account as 

 the horses they ride? 



" It is even so. If a soldier or groom should lose 

 a valuable horse through any neglect or oversight, 

 he is likely to pay the forfeit with his life!" 



Then the course in veterinary science must be a 

 very difficult one? 



*' It is, indeed, madam. The rules are strict, the 

 examinations very rigid, and it is only after a long 



