171 
HISTORY OF VETERINARY SCIENCE. 
and the direction of the pupils in their exercises in practical phar¬ 
macy. In this new appointment they have had in view the saving 
of considerable expenditure to the State, inevitably resulting 
where from want of such surveillance in well-supplied pharmacies 
losses and waste attended the manipulation of substances, often 
costly, by young inexperienced hands without guides. 
In considering in detail the requirements of the important chair 
now under consideration, and estimating its importance in veteri¬ 
nary instruction, the committee have foreseen the difficulty there 
must be, in carrying it into execution, of finding in the veterinary 
body men capable of meeting all its exigencies. 
Chemistry has for some years past been making singularly large 
strides in advance. Even the life of a man now is hardly long 
enough for its study. It is only by a lengthened apprenticeship 
and continual application of mind that anybody can acquire that 
manual skill and superior theoretic knowledge without which ex¬ 
perimental researches in chemistry are necessarily fruitless. But 
again, the concurrence of chemistry is indispensable to the solution 
of problems of practical medicine, of experimental physiology, of 
practical agriculture, legal medicine, &c. These considerations 
have convinced the committee that veterinary education would be 
without one of those elements most indispensable to its progress if 
the occupier of the chemical chair did not unite in his own person 
all the conditions required to solve the difficult and important 
questions of a science which might come under his investigation. 
And therefore the Committee have judged it needful, for the in¬ 
terests both of science and instruction, to deviate from the principle 
which reserves to veterinarians alone the right of being chosen by 
concours to occupy the several chairs of the veterinary schools, 
and to permit, in the case of the chemical professorships only, the 
concours to be thrown open to all candidates, without requiring, 
as an indispensable qualification, the veterinary diploma. 
The Committee believe to have insured, in the method they 
propose, the guarantee that the chair of chemistry will be always 
filled by men of first-rate talent in their sphere. 
4 th Chair.—Pathological Anatomy, Sanitary Police, and Legal 
Medicine, 
Comprising 
The teaching of—A. General Pathological Anatomy. 
,, B. Sanitary police, comprising the study of 
ENZOOTICS and EPIZOOTICS, of CONTA¬ 
GIOUS DISEASES, and of the LEGISLATION 
APPLICABLE TO THEM. 
„ C. Legal Medicine. 
