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our animals : the rest remain in the hands of empirics of every 
grade, who know nothing except some monstrous receipts which 
they drew from some obscure corner of the shop during their ap¬ 
prenticeship, and which they apply indiscriminately to every 
disease. 
“ We trust that the administrators of the department, and the 
agriculturists who are so deeply interested in our prosperity, 
will furnish us with all the objects necessary to complete the 
education of our pupils, and especially, will send to us their 
cattle and sheep, animals which are said by the Swiss to have 
golden feet, since they enrich the land on which they are fed. 
It has been objected, but perhaps unjustly, to the colleges of 
Lyons and Alfort, that they are too much schools of horse prac¬ 
tice, and pay only a secondary attention to other domestic ani¬ 
mals. Instructed by experience, the professors of the school of 
Toulouse will strictly conform themselves to the royal ordi¬ 
nance, and will especially occupy themselves on the diseases of 
cattle. The local authorities can render us most important as¬ 
sistance, and can procure us many advantages, almost without 
expense. The butchers should be compelled to slaughter and 
open their cattle in the presence of the professor or some of his 
pupils. Specimens of rare disease would thus be preserved by 
the students ; and these preparations, united together, would 
soon form an extensive and useful museum. Supposing that 
five hundred beasts are thus slaughtered yearly, the pupil, during 
his four years’ residence, would have the opportunity of examin¬ 
ing two thousand carcases, while the most zealous veterinarian 
will seldom have the opportunity to inspect a tenth part in the 
course of a longer practice. 
“ The gates of the school will be, at all times, open to medical 
men, and to the members of learned societies, who will, at all 
times, find opportunity to institute experiments, either on the ef¬ 
fects of poisons, or remedial means. Thus there will exist at 
Toulouse, a school of experimental physiology, of which the ca¬ 
pital cannot boast. Thus the knowledge and practice of the 
healing art will be rapidly advancing towards perfection; many 
an obscure problem will be resolved, and medicine will, from its 
