PROGRESS IN VETERINARY MEDICINE. 
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PROGRESS IN VETERINARY MEDICINE IN ITS RE¬ 
LATION TO HYGIENE.* 
By Dr. William Herbert Dowe, Paterson, N. J. 
President of the Veterinary Medical Association of New Jersey. 
The progress made in veterinary medicine in its relation to 
hygiene, as well as in many other respects, during the last few 
years, has been constant and amazing, and shows that the two 
great branches of medical science—human and animal—are in¬ 
separable. This fact, I believe, is recognized by scientists the 
world over. The leading veterinary colleges of America are no 
longer independent institutions, but have become departments 
of great universities. Cornell and the University of Pennsyl¬ 
vania have each a veterinary department, and New York Univer¬ 
sity has recently established a veterinary department. This de¬ 
partment is the result of the union of the two oldest veterinary 
colleges in this country, viz., The New York College of Veter¬ 
inary Surgeons with the American Veterinary College and the 
adoption of the consolidated institution as a school of the New 
York University, under the title of The New York-American 
Veterinary College. 
Comparative anatomy, comparative physiology, comparative 
pathology, bacteriology, entomology, animal parasites and 
parasitism, chemistry, physics, meat and milk inspection and 
sanitary science are among the subjects found in the curricula 
of the recognized veterinary schools of to-day. 
Harvey’s discovery of the action of the heart and the circu¬ 
lation of the blood by experiments made upon living animals ; 
Jenner’s discovery of vaccination and announcement that small¬ 
pox might be prevented by inoculation with the virus of cow- 
pox are well known examples of the inestimable value to man¬ 
kind of a scientific study of animal life in connection with ex¬ 
perimentation. In fact, it might be said that it was by the 
student entering the domain of comparative or veterinary medi- 
* A paper read before the New Jersey Sanitary Association, at Lakewood, 
N. J., Dec. 7th, igoi. 
