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Dr. Alexander Glass, V.S., in order to familiarize them with the 
specialties required in compounding veterinary medicines; they 
will have the full course of physiology from Professor 
Allen, and where this is inadequate for veterinary instruction, as 
it is necessarily prepared for the students of human medicine, 
there will be supplementary lectures by Professor Smith, who 
will also direct them in practical work with special reference to 
the domestic animals; the elementary course in general pathology 
under Professor Tyson will be the same for the veterinary and 
medical student. Professor Rothrock will not only give them 
general botany, but will pay special attention to the plants used 
for forage and their nutrient value. Professor Parker in his 
course of zoology, after giving them the general laws of the de¬ 
velopment and classification of animals, will dwell upon the 
helminths'and animal parasites; the course of anatomy will em¬ 
brace the horse, cow, sheep, goat, hog, dogs, cats and poultry, 
and in the course of histology, the tissues of these animals will 
be used; from the microscope the student will go to the black¬ 
smith shop, where he will learn to forge and to shoe the horse’s 
foot. This last course has never been practically carried out in the 
English speaking schools, but is essential to the veterinary sur¬ 
geon ; he will never be a farrier and in practice will avoid even 
taking off a shoe when he can get anyone else to do it for him, but 
shoeing is the cause of nine-tenths of the surgical evils in the 
horse, and without a thorough practical knowledge of it, it is im¬ 
possible to obtain from or show to a blacksmith what one wants. 
In the second year, medical or organic chemistry will be 
taught and examinations will be held; the course of physiology, 
botany, zoology and anatomy will be finished ; the students will 
commence their lectures in therapeutics, with practical demon¬ 
strations of the effects of drugs on the domestic animals ; they 
will continue the course of general pathology; with the second 
year will commence the lectures on surgical pathology, internal 
pathology and the contagious diseases or practice of medicine. 
These same lectures will be continued the third year with the ad¬ 
dition of lectures on obstetrics and zootechnics, or the laws of 
breeding and raising animals, and the modes employed for obtain- 
