814 PRACTICE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERY. 
This division will be the more needful when both medicine 
human and medicine veterinary occupy their true positions 
as important matters in that great division of social science, 
public health. 
Although for ultimate good to yourselves, and for the suc¬ 
cessful termination of your College curriculum, it is needful 
that no one of those studies considered needful for the per¬ 
fecting of your professional education be at any time during 
your student life lost sight of or lightly dealt with, there 
are yet particular subjects which at particular periods demand 
more especial attention. If during your earlier student 
days much of your time is necessarily employed in obtaining 
a knowledge of those subjects which are calculated to form 
the basis, structure, or framework, so to speak, of your more 
purely professional knowledge—a structure or framework 
which, if neglected to be laid or carelessly and in a perfunc¬ 
tory manner put together, will ever afterwards be to us a 
source of disappointment and grief, seeing that without a 
sure and good foundation no lasting or goodly superstruc¬ 
ture can be raised. 
For a just and true appreciation of what maybe styled 
the theory or science of medicine and surgery, whether this 
be medicine and surgery human or veterinary—for a sound 
and satisfactory training in this department of knowledge 
likely to be fruitful of wholesome and appreciable results— 
many separate and distinct branches of study require to be 
engaged in, which together embrace or make up the sum 
total of the knowledge expressed by this science, which has 
for its divisions the departments of physiology, pathology 
(general and special), therapeutics, and hygiene. 
All these departments or sections require cultivation, and 
they each and all by this cultivation prepare the way for the 
study of that which is the ultimate end of all medical train¬ 
ing, viz. the exercise of medicine and surgery, human or 
veterinary, as an art. 
With only one of these departments of general medical 
study, however, are we in our studies required to attend to, 
viz. pathology. 
This, in its widest as well as in its literal sense or mean¬ 
ing, is a discourse upon disease, and includes all that 
pertains or is in any way directly related to its nature and 
existence. 
But as in the entire study of medicine it is not possible 
for any one man to grasp or thoroughly master either 
the principles or knowledge embraced in any one depart¬ 
ment, far less to teach these, so even any single section 
