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human medicine. In preventive medicine the application of 
the germ theory is of much importance. The sanitary police 
measures, based on this knowledge, are easily framed, and if 
carried rigorously into operation, must eventually lead to the 
extinction of these disastrous disorders. 
The medicine of the lower animals differs from that of man 
in no particular except, perhaps, in the application of utilitarian 
principles. The life of man is sacred, but where there are 
doubts as to the possible restoration to health and soundness of 
an animal, monetary considerations generally decide against the 
adoption of remedial measures. 
This school was organized in 1883 by Professors A. H. 
Baker, R. J. Withers, and Joseph Hughes. The new veterinary 
school had neither pecuniary endowment nor public support. 
The three gentlemen had neither wealth in hand nor wealthy 
relatives, but, nevertheless, did have two necessary elements of 
success, namely, faith and an abundant capacity for work, and 
so successfully did they use these elements that at the end of 
two years they found the space in the rickety old livery stable, 
with the dissecting room across the alley in a little, old barn, 
inadequate for their purpose. Consequently, this building was 
planned and built, and even here by reason of the phenomenal 
growth in the attendance, important changes have been neces¬ 
sary from time to time for the accommodation, comfort and 
welfare of the students, and to-day the school is one of the best 
equipped on the continent. The course is as scientific as is 
consistent with thoroughly practical instruction. There are 
abundant facilities for the teaching of theory and practice of 
veterinary medicine, anatomy, chemistry, veterinary dentistry, 
both theoretical and practical, helminthology, general pathology, 
histology, the use of the microscope, materia medica, pharmacy, 
hygiene, breeding, and general management of domesticated 
animals receive careful and thorough attention. Special atten¬ 
tion is also paid to veterinary surgery and obstetrics, lameness, 
shoeing and examination of horses for soundness. 
The founders of the Chicago Veterinary College can look 
