VETERINARY EDUCATION. 1 5 



" The highest veterinary college for cattle is in 

 Switzerland, and that in England ranks next. But 

 in England the college is not under government con- 

 trol, as it is in Russia, Austria, Germany, France, 

 and indeed all European countries under the regime 

 of military law." 



Are they not very strict in those countries regard- 

 ing meats and their healthy condition? 



" Indeed, yes, and it is most important every- 

 where. In these countries there is a veterinary sur- 

 geon on every Board of Health to determine the 

 sanitary condition of suspected animals, before they 

 are butchered. In Bavaria every hog is examined 

 by an animal doctor before it can be sold, to avoid 

 trichinosis, and since the horse has been declared 

 good for food the fact proves that veterinary science 

 has made great strides." 



Then science has proved that horse-flesh is good 

 to eat? 



" It has, emphatically so. Horses were formerly 

 too expensive to buy for post-mortem examinations. 

 Now, if a horse break his leg, and so being useless 

 is killed; if, after examination by a veterinary, he 

 is pronounced healthy, he can be cut up and eaten. 

 The custom has become too common to convey an 

 idea of horror as it once did. In some cities there 

 are restaurants, where horse-flesh is the only meat 

 provided. Then our daily accounts during the siege of 

 Paris, and the high esteem in which horse-meat was 

 there held, have helped also to cure us of this idea. " 



We might then have saved our shudders, and our 

 sympathy for the horse-devouring community. 



