HISTORY OF VETERINARY SCIENCE. 
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benefits arising from that magnificent organization which he had 
set in motion. On his leaving office, a rigid economy enforced 
the suppression of the newly created professorships, and of all 
expenses necessarily entailed upon them. 
With the professorships disappeared the herds and flocks, and 
the menagerie as well. 
The school became contracted again to the same dimensions it 
occupied at the death of its founder (Bourgelat), and no vestiges of 
Calonne’s administration remained save the buildings, the farm, 
and the preparations. 
The Emperor s Decree on Veterinary Schools in 1813. 
Little was done by government to ameliorate veterinary esta¬ 
blishments from the time of Calonne up to the year 1813. The 
schools remained as Bourgelat had left them up to this year. But 
now a decree of the Emperor (Napoleon) set them upon a new 
foundation. This decree appointed five schools of veterinary and 
rural economy throughout the empire ; one first class, and four 
second class. And by it veterinary education was divided into 
two courses. 
The first course, common to all the schools, comprised— 
1. French grammar. 
2. The anatomy and exterior of animals. 
3. Botany, materia medica, and pharmacy. 
4. The art of shoeing, the forge, and jurisprudence. 
5. The treatment of the diseases of animals. 
The second course, confined to the Alfort School, embraced— 
1. Rural economy, and the breeding and rearing of domestic 
animals. 
2. Zoology. 
3. Physics and chemistry applied to the diseases of animals. 
Such was the system of 1813. It did not turn out a happy scheme. 
Circumscribed within the same limits, deprived, too, of the means 
of experimentation, it was impossible for it to acquire any ele¬ 
vated character for science. 
The decree of 1813 continued in force until 1825, and then 
came— 
The Royal Ordonnance of 1825 for the Organization of 
Veterinary Schools. 
By this “ ordonnance” a third veterinary school was created 
in France, viz., that of Toulouse. 
[To be continued.] 
