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ing the greatest use from them, as they may be destined for animal 
motors or machines for the production of milk, wool or flesh. 
A course will be given on the preparation of butcher meat, show¬ 
ing the most humane methods for slaughtering animals for food, 
the preparation of the meat and the signs of unhealthy or dis¬ 
eased flesh in the living or dressed animal ; there will also be lec¬ 
tures on sanitary police familiarizing students with the inade¬ 
quate laws of this country and those of other countries which 
they may use as models when called upon to consult in these 
matters. With the commencement of the second year the stu¬ 
dent will enter the hospital and during it and the following year 
will have direct charge of the sick animals; they will keep the 
clinical records, administer the medicines, perform minor opera¬ 
tions, and in case of death make the autopsies. Each in turn will 
serve in the hospital pharmacy, and prepare all medicines re¬ 
quired in the institution. 
Such, gentlemen, is the plan of study which we have laid out 
for making veterinary surgeons. This training thoroughly car¬ 
ried out will give us men fully capable of being the scientific 
peers of any doctor of medicine; it will form men completely 
fitted for any trust in an animal epidemic or in the minor details 
of a routine practice. A man with this education will hold his 
head up among his fellows, and when a stableman calls for the 
“ horse doctor ” will feel that he is called out as a respected pro¬ 
fessional man to do good, and that he is beyond the suspicion of 
being asked to use his knowledge to share in a deception or a 
fraud. 
For the instruction of the first year we are as fully equipped 
as a school can be at its beginning, with but a small museum and 
the rough edges of the various parts of this educational machine 
still unworn. 
For the second and third years we are not yet prepared, and 
we depend upon your generosity and that of your neighbors to 
complete this department. We have here such a piece of ground 
as is unobtainable in any other large city in the United States, 
and if we take advantage of it before it is appropriated to other 
needs we will have an establishment equal to any in Europe. We 
