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ROBERT MEADE SMITH. 
205, the largest of our annual records. These clinics continue to 
be held during the whole year on Mondays and Saturdays at 2:30 
p. m., and are intended to afford the poor, who cannot remunerate 
the sendees of a good veterinarian, an opportunity of obtaining 
relief for their suffering animals. We take this opportunity to 
thank our colleagues who are engaged in practice in the city for 
the assistance they have kindly rendered us in sending us many 
valuable and interesting subjects, which we were thus able to 
bring before our classes of students. 
During the past ten years 3,723 patients have thus been treated 
free of charge, and upon them 887 operations were performed. 
FREE CLINIC PATIENTS DURING THE TEN YEARS, WITH NUMBER OF • 
OPERATIONS PERFORMED. 
1876,-animals 
-operations. 
1881, 
442 animals, 91 operations. 
1877, 289 
no account kept. 
1882, 
462 
“ 100 
it 
1878, 286 “ 
80 operations. 
1883, 
877 
“ 130 
4 4 
1879, 462 
28 
1884, 
475 
“ 162 
4 4 
1880, 495 
91 “ 
1885, 
495 
“ 205 
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In closing this report I am pleased to acknowledge, and offer 
my thanks for, the assistance afforded me by Assistant Veterinary 
Surgeon W. J. Coates, M.D., D.V.S., and the House Surgeons, 
F. Allen, D.V.S., and J. Ryder, D.V.S. 
Respectfully submitted by 
A. Liautard, M.D., V.S. 
Chief Veterinary Surgeon. 
SHOULD EXPERIMENTS ON ANIMALS BE RESTRICTED 
OR ABOLISHED?* 
By Robt. Meade Smith, M.D., Professor of Comparative Physiology, University 
of Pennsylvania. 
Continued from page 10. 
And now let us look at the benefits conferred on animals, and 
both directly and indirectly on the human race in this one in¬ 
stance, through experiments on animals. Brauell, the eminent 
professor at the veterinary school of Dorpat, Russia, was the first 
*An introductory address to the course of lectures on Comparative Physiology. 
Reprint from the Therapeutic Gazette. 
