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THE VETERINARY AliT IN INDIA. 
This course is chiefly intended for the military smiths and far- 
riers (Curschmiede). 
The value of such an institution in an agricultural and cattle 
country like Austria is too manifest to require comment. 
A reference to the foregoing programme of study shews us 
that there are many descriptions of veterinary practitioners dis- 
tributed throughout the country — first, the general medical prac- 
titioners who may have graduated in the Veterinary Institution 
(Thierarzenei-Imtitut) : second, the special veterinary practition- 
ers, who must also be surgeons (Approbirte Thierarzte) ; smiths 
and farriers (Gelernte Schmiede) ; land-bailiffs, agriculturalists, 
and managers of estates ( Landwirthe und (Jekonomen) , who must 
have received a previous good general education, and have attended 
lectures upon agriculture in a university or lyceum ; equerries and 
riding-masters (Officier, Beretire und Stallmeister) ; as also cat- 
tle and meat inspectors (Vieh-und FleischbeschauerJ, whose busi- 
ness it is to inspect the markets, as well as to examine all cattle 
exposed for sale — these persons are generally butchers; herds 
and shepherds (Hirten und Schafmeister) ; and, lastly, hunts- 
men ( Jager), whose business it is to attend more particularly to 
the treatment of dogs ; — the whole being committed to the care 
of a district veterinary surgeon ( Landes-Thierarzt) , an immediate 
government officer placed under the direction of the Protomedi- 
cus. There is one Landes-Thierarzt , with a salary of six hundred 
florins, in every province, who furnishes sanatory reports from 
each district to the general medical direction. 
THE VETERINARY ART IN INDIA. 
By J. Grellier, Esq., M.R.C.S . 
[Continued from page 240.] 
Sleepy Staggers, or Apoplexy. 
The brain is also subject to a disease which the farriers call 
staggers, and which assumes two very opposite appearances. 
One is termed the mad, and the other the sleepy staggers. 
I imagine the sleepy staggers to be a species of apoplexy, and 
relieved accordingly. The oppression on the brain, threatening 
immediate death, will be relieved by copious bleeding from a 
very large orifice. Purgatives should be also administered, with 
pretty str$pg clysters, and ligatures round the legs will keep the 
