REPORT ON INTELLIGENCE AND EDUCATION. 
601 
The curriculum at the Government school comprises de¬ 
scriptive anatomy of animals, systematic and comparative ; 
topographical anatomy ; general and special histology ; phys¬ 
iology (including embryology) experimental physics and 
physiological chemistry; pharmacognosis and pharmacy; 
therapeutics (including pharmacodynamics); pathological 
anatomy, general pathology (including bacteriology and par¬ 
asitology) ; medical and surgical pathology; zootechnics, 
hygiene and principles of agriculture ; sanitary police, legal 
medicine, commercial legislation, and deontology; toxicology 
(including chemical analysis in clinics); farriery ; operative 
medicine; obstetrics clinics ; inspection of meats. The bene, 
fits which the veterinary profession derives from this new 
system, enforced as it is by effective legislative supervision 
and prohibition, can hardly be estimated. 
REGULATIONS OF VETERINARY EDUCATION AND PRACTICE 
IN FRANCE. 
The first veterinary school was founded at Lyons by the 
celebrated Bourgelat. The notoriety of his book upon Hip- 
piatry brought about the founding of a school for teaching the 
method of treating domestic animals. In 1753 this school 
received the title ol “ Ecole rojrnle veterinaire.” Two of Bour- 
gelat’s scholars, Chabert and Bredin, founded a school at Alfort 
in 1776. Similar institutions were projected in various other 
places. Though suppressed in 1793, the schools of Lyons 
and Alfort were reorganized in 1795. The Convention gave 
them a new existence in the third year of the Republic. The 
school at Alfort became the most important and was made 
illustrious by masters of the highest reputation. It was reor¬ 
ganized by decree of June 5th, 1813, and above all by the 
order of September 1st, 1825, which has been called a verita¬ 
ble charter of veterinary science. 
The third school was established at Toulouse in 1828. The 
veterinary schools are governed at the present time by the 
decree of Ootober 1st, 1881, and the arrete of March 
1st, 1891. 
