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who had to practise medicine should be obliged to learn all 
about drugs, and where they came from ; they might just as 
well be required to learn all about cutlery because they used 
knives. If his views were adopted there would be left for the 
four years’ study the following nine subjects : — Physics ap- 
plied to Physiology, Chemistry applied to Physiology, Physio- 
logy, Anatomy, Surgery, Medicine, Obstetrics, Hygiene, and 
Medical Jurisprudence, which would be quite enough for one 
man’s pursuit ; and this course would not oblige a medical 
student to occupy his time with what would not be absolutely 
useful in his future life.” 
There are no portions of the curriculum which we can 
select as desirable to be abolished in veterinary schools ; but we 
quite admit the force of the suggestion to commit the teaching 
of the theoretical branches of the profession to the ordinary 
schools. If students were sent to the veterinary colleges with 
a theoretical knowledge of the “ elements of physical science, 
physics, chemistry, botany, and the like,” they might occupy 
the short period which they are at present bound to devote 
to professional study to the acquirement of those subjects 
only which would be absolutely useful to them in their future 
career, instead of spending a considerable part of the too 
limited time in the mere learning of first principles. 
Professor Huxley’s views are somewhat startling in their 
novelty as in the boldness of their enunciation. They are quite 
worthy of our serious consideration, now that we are trying 
to devise a scheme of education which shall, in some degree, 
remove what many do not hesitate to call a scandal in the 
veterinary profession. 
THE TEXAS CATTLE EEYER. 
In the Chamber of Agriculture Journal of May 16th we 
read the following in reference to the importation of cattle 
from the "River Plate : 
“We are in danger of importing with South American 
animals the fearful Texan cattle disease, or Spanish fever. 
In a letter to Dr. Cameron, of Dublin, the honorary corre- 
sponding secretary of the New York State Agricultural 
Society says, ‘ I shall be very much surprised if the South 
