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THE VETERINARY SCHOOL 
rians among them. A considerable sum was likewise drawn from 
the royal stables, which would enjoy a similar benefit. The 
money advanced by M. Abildgaard was also repaid to him. 
On the 22d of July 1777, an edict was issued which con¬ 
firmed the rights and privileges of veterinary surgeons, and for¬ 
bad any from practising the art in the capital who had not sub¬ 
mitted to an examination at the college, and obtained a certificate 
’om it. 
In 1784, the library of M. Abildgaard was purchased by 
government, and given to the college ; and his collection of instru¬ 
ments, and models, and anatomical preparations, was soon after¬ 
wards added. On the following year, M. Wiborg returning from 
his botanical voyage, and being appointed the other professor, 
his splendid library and collection of specimens were likewise 
added. 
On the ground floor of the principal building is a spacious 
theatre: one wing contains the museum, and the other the 
library, above which is the residence of the principal director. 
In another part of the building is the forge, the apartments of 
the professor of shoeing, and comfortable lodgings for sixteen 
students. At the back are two stables for fourteen horses, and 
the dissecting-room; and at the side is the pharmacy, and 
another stable for eight horses. 
The two professors deliver four lectures each in the week, and 
the Sunday is appropriated to the instruction of the apprentices 
of farriers, who are at leisure on that day only: the pupils also 
undergo weekly examinations on the subjects of the lectures. 
The students are divided into three classes. All attend the 
lectures, demonstrations, and dissections, but, while the first class 
takes its weekly turn in working at the forge, the second dis¬ 
charges all the duties of the infirmary, even to the feeding and 
other care of the sick horses; while the third class employs its 
leisure hours, in completing its notes of lectures or practice, and 
otherwise pursuing its studies. In the winter they are daily 
occupied in dissection, and principally the dissection of the horse. 
The summer is devoted to surgical operations, performed on con¬ 
demned or purchased horses, to accustom them to the operations, 
and to the healing process afterwards. The lectures occupy two 
years in the completion of the different courses; but the pupils 
are compelled to remain three years, that they may be perfectly 
grounded in every part of their profession. The elements of 
natural history and medical chemistry are first taught; to this 
succeeds a course of anatomy, first with reference to physiology, 
and then to the general principles of pathology; to these follow 
veterinary economy, embracing the choice, the feeding, and the 
