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your efforts should be turned towards educating our young men, 
and making them acquainted with the fundamental principles of 
this art. 
“ The object of this art is not only congenial with human 
medicine, but the very same paths which lead to a knowledge 
of the diseases of man lead also to a knowledge of those of brutes. 
An accurate examination of the interior parts of their bodies — 
a studious survey of the arrangement, structure, form, use, con- 
nexion and relation of these parts, and of the laws by which 
they are intended to act; as also of the nature and properties of 
the various foods and other agents which the earth so liberally 
provides for their support and cure — these form, in a great mea- 
sure, the sound and sure foundation of all medical science, 
whatever living individual animal be the subject of our con- 
sideration. 
“ Our domestic animals deserve consideration at our hands. 
We have tried all manner of experiments on them for the 
benefit of science ; and science and scientific men should do 
something to repay the debt, by alleviating their sufferings and 
improving their condition. We know that physicians of all ages 
have applied themselves to the dissection of animals, and that 
it was by analogy that those of Greece and Rome judged of the 
structure of the human body. For example, the Greeks and 
Arabians confined themselves to the dissection of apes and 
quadrupeds. Galen has given us the anatomy of the ape for 
that of man ; and it is clear that his dissections were restricted 
to brutes, when he says ‘that if learned physicians have been 
guilty of gross errors, it was because they neglected animals.’ 
I will enumerate a few organs of the human body that were first 
discovered in kids; viz. the oesophagus, Fallopian tubes, and 
organs of sound and respiration. Galen demonstrated by experi- 
ments on living animals, that it was possible to restore suspended 
animation by inflating the lungs; this has saved the lives of 
many thousands of the human race. The salivary glands were 
first discovered in an ox, and the thoracic duct in a horse. A 
hundred years afterwards the latter canal was first discovered in 
man. The immortal Harvey, assisted by experiments on living 
animals, discovered the circulation of the blood. The lacrymal 
glands, the organs of taste, the excretory duct of the pancreas, 
the peristaltic motion of the intestines, were first discovered in 
animals. In a word, the greater part of the functions of man 
were first made known by the general analogy subsisting 
between the functions of animal organization. 
“ I advocate the establishment of veterinary schools, and the 
cultivation of veterinary medicine on the broad ground of 
humanity. These poor animals are as susceptible to pain and 
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