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THE COLLEGE OE VETERINARY SURGEONS OE NEW YORK, 
From the ( New York Herald? of November 21 st } 1859. 
tc Last year the Legislature of this State supplied a great 
desideratum in the incorporation of the College of Vete¬ 
rinary Surgeons of New York. The result is that a hand¬ 
some three-story brick and brown-stone building, called 
the ‘ Veterinary College Institute/ has just been completed 
for its accommodation, at the corner of Twenty-third Street 
and Sixth Avenue, capable of accommodating fifty horses in 
the most superior manner, containing spacious stalls, 
thoroughly ventilated and comfortable, and with as much 
light as is usually admitted into the human dwelling. The 
institute is designed to teach both the theory and practice of 
medicine for the horse—to have a museum, a dissecting- 
room, and a lecture-room for the anatomy, physiology, 
pathology, and diseases of that animal, and for the propaga¬ 
tion of useful knowledge as regards his management in 
health, so as to prevent disease, and to derive all the benefit 
from the horse of which he is capable—to furnish reliable 
information as regards the breeding of the animal, so as to 
enable the public to obtain the best stock and to perpetuate 
it; and lastly, to have a model range of stables to teach by 
practical example how the horse ought to be taken care of, 
and to exhibit those improvements which art has invented to 
better his condition. 
“ Medical colleges for man there are in abundance, but as 
yet for the horse there has been none in this country, with 
the exception of one in Boston, which proved a failure. 
The want is now supplied as far as this city is concerned, 
and a beginning is made, which, it is hoped, will extend to 
every part of the country. Quackery of the horse has 
hitherto been universal, but now a more enlightened treat¬ 
ment is inaugurated. To Captain Ralston great credit is 
due for this result. He has laboured for years to bring it 
about. Some years since a committee of the Legislature of 
this State reported as follows : 
“‘That the great importance of the science and practice 
of the veterinary art will be universally admitted; and there 
are some considerations pertaining to this subject that seem 
