American Veterinary Review, 
AUGUST, 1891 . 
EDITORIAL 
Veterinary Curriculum. —Considering- the period dur¬ 
ing which the arts of teaching have been applied to the sub¬ 
jects included within the range of veterinary science and 
practice, in most of the countries of Europe, and notably in 
France, the results, up to the present time, hardly seem to be 
adequate and satisfactory. That the experience of these 
years of trial has not brought the instructors to the point of 
perfection in their methods and appliances as teachers, is 
perhaps not to be wondered at, but that they ought more 
nearly to have approximated that point, may safely be 
affirmed. French veterinarians have not been unobservant 
of this condition of things, and of late years they have not 
been backward in suggestions of changes and improvements, 
until at length, as the result of the careful and laborious study 
of a committee of veterinarians, a plan was formulated em¬ 
bracing the changes and improvements judged to be desirable, 
and their conclusions having been duly submitted to the 
proper authorities, have been by their order put in the 
course of experimental and practical trial. 
But it would seem that an important question has still 
been somewhat overlooked, in omitting to provide for so es¬ 
sential a matter as the creation of a special chair of Cattle 
Pathology. It is, indeed, a most remarkable fact that such a 
special department has not been in existence from the first as 
a separate chair. We well remember how Alfort’s clinics 
were comparatively lacking in cattle patients, though the 
