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pathology, internal pathology, external pathology, hygiene, con¬ 
tagious diseases and sanitary police, inspection of meats, commer¬ 
cial jurisprudence and legal medicine, preventive inoculations, 
surgical pathology, surgical and topographical anatomy, obstet¬ 
rics, surgical operations, general zootechny, special zootechny, 
agriculture, equitetion. 
Do our American medical schools exceed this in time or 
1 ange ? The veterinarian has more need of a thorough training 
than the physician. He deals with not one genus, but with half 
a dozen, differing widely in structure, functions, habits and dis¬ 
eases. He cannot avail of the subjective feelings and intelligence 
of his dumb patient, but must be skillful enough to reach a sound 
diagnosis by objective signs. He can learn nothing as to early 
symptoms nor probable causes by interrogations, but must exer¬ 
cise a more careful physical examination and must have his mind 
more alert to probable harmful antecedents. And why should 
this skill as applied to the beast be less reliable or less estimable 
than when similar skill is exerted on man ? The habit of relying 
on objective symptoms alone gives the veterinarian the better 
training, and if he has the requisite education and natural ability 
serves to render his observation more acute, just as the blind man 
concentrating his whole mind on the senses of hearing and feel¬ 
ing acquires an extraordinary delicacy in these senses. 
Now I inquire, Had Drs. Swinburne and Gallinger any such 
preparation for their medical practice as these students get for 
their veterinary ? If they had, they must have made a wofully 
poor use of their opportunities from present appearances. 
Once more: Dr. Gallinger attributes lung plague, small-pox, 
etc., to filth, privations of travel, etc. It puzzles me to conceive 
of where he can have obtained his alleged medical education. 
Surely no educated medical man of to-day makes such atrocious 
blunders. Small-pox was unknown in Europe till the sixth cen¬ 
tury. Have Europe and America descended to an abyss of filth 
unknown till that time, save among the people of Egypt and the 
East, where small-pox previously prevailed ? A few years ago 
small-pox was still unknown in Australia and Tasmania. Has 
there been no filth in the emigrant vessels, in the huts at the 
