428 NECESSITY OF A VETERINARY INSTITUTION IN IRELAND. 
considered of great interest in connection with live stock in 
Ireland. 
I believe/^ said his Excellency, there is in this country 
no veterinary college. Now, I certainly think it is of vast 
importance to the owners of stock that there should be a 
competent and able body of men to advise them as to the 
health of their cattle, and not only so, but that they might 
be able in a moment of emergency to assist the government 
to investigate the causes of disease and extinguish contagion, 
if it should exist. There can be no doubt that there are 
many able veterinary surgeons in this country—many who 
have come from the veterinary colleges of England and 
Scotland; but I think it would be of great advantage if 
there was a veterinary college or a veterinary department 
under a body established in this country; for I have no 
doubt that many who have a desire to enter the veterinary 
profession, when they find that they must go across to 
England or Scotland for the purpose, are prevented from 
doing so, and a field for useful work is thus closed to many 
Irishmen. 
I have often regretted, too, that there is not more sym¬ 
pathy and union between the medical and the veterinary 
sciences. I believe if there was more of union and sym¬ 
pathy the result would be mutually advantageous to both 
professions. The veterinary science would derive great 
benefit from the vast knowledge and experience of the higher 
profession, and, I believe, on the other hand, medical science 
and research would be advanced considerably by the facts 
learned from experiments on animals. 
I remember, having had the honour of being on the 
Cattle Plague Commission, that we carried out very extensive 
experiments in the relation to the diseases of cattle. We 
had several distinguished medical gentlemen on our commis¬ 
sion, and with their consent many curious experiments were 
made in relation to disinfection—the indications of disease, 
the particular remedies to be applied, and the way of tracing 
their operation, and I believe very important discoveries were 
made not only in veterinary science, but also in the treatment 
of human maladies. I will not—1 think it would not be my 
place to do so—say how this institution could be obtained ; 
but I believe it would be a great advantage to this country if 
it had a veterinary or some department in that line formed 
in Ireland .'’^—Irish Farmer^s Gazette. 
