600 
F. OSGOOD. 
curriculum of study and the improvement in the qualification 
of veterinarians so as to keep abreast with the progress of 
science in recent years. The larger number of veterinary 
physicians are graduates from the Government veterinary 
school, but in accordance with the principles of liberty in 
higher education prevailing in Belgium, it is not obligatory 
' to pursue a course of study at this school, so that degrees 
may be obtained in any place where equivalent studies have 
been followed. The effect of the law is to secure to the veter¬ 
inary students a general scientific education. It also has the 
intent of giving a more enlarged scope to the members of the 
veterinary profession, and of qualifying them by means of 
more extended special studies for the practice of human medi¬ 
cine, pharmacy and agricultural science. 
By a roval decree of December ioth, 1890, a corps of vet¬ 
erinary inspectors was created independent of local control, 
which acts as a sanitary police, with extensive and definite 
powers relating to the prevention or control of the contagious 
diseases of domestic animals, as well as the inspection of meat. 
These inspectors receive from 4,800 to 6,000 francs. 
There are two grades of veterinarians provided for in the 
general scheme, that of veterinary candidate, and that of 
veterinary physician. The requisite to the grade of veter¬ 
inary candidate is the possession of the degree of candidate 
of natural science, or its equivalent; and no one is admitted 
to the examination for the degree of veterinary physician 
who does not receive the degree of veterinary candidate. 
The examination for the degree of veterinary candidate em¬ 
braces the following subjects: Therapeutics (including phar¬ 
macodynamics) pathological anatomy; general pathology, 
(including bacteriology and parasitology); medical and sur¬ 
gical pathology ; sanitary police ; legal medicine ; commercial 
legislation and deontology; zootechnics; hygiene, and ele¬ 
ments of agriculture. 
In addition to this examination, which is oral, tests in 
demonstration are made in pharmacy, operative medicine, 
clinics, obstetrics, external anatomy and macroscopical path¬ 
ological anatomy. 
