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III. 
1st.—At least four years of special study are necessary to 
complete the amount of instruction in veterinary medicine suffi¬ 
cient to qualify a student to encounter the duties and responsi¬ 
bilities of the practitioner; especially if the study of the natural 
and physical sciences is included within that term. 
2d.—The instruction of the first two years (first four semesters) 
ought to embrace : Physics, chemistry, natural history (geology, 
mineralogy, botany and zoology); anatomy, histology, physi- 
°l°gy, and shoeing, with all the courses and practical exercises 
belonging to it. A course of practical micrography should also 
be included. 
3d.—During the same period one may learn the branches of 
zootechny, embracing the natural history of domestic animals 
and their external form, and zootechny proper. 
4th.—Clinical instruction may be attended during the last two 
years of study. To make the practical instruction of students 
complete, it is absolutely necessary to have, connected with the 
clinic of the hospitals and the polyclinic, an outside or ambu¬ 
latory clinic. 
5th.—Practical instruction in shoeing cannot be enforced as 
useful, but it ought to be studied to a reasonable extent. 
6th.—The inspection of meats is one of the branches of 
instruction absolutely indispensable to a complete veterinary 
curriculum. 
IY. 
1st.—At the end of the second year (fourth semester) students 
ought to be examined upon the branches taught them in the first 
two years. None of them can follow the third year course with¬ 
out having passed satisfactorily this examination (of candidature 
or in physical sciences). 
2d.—No student should be admitted to the examination of 
veterinary surgeon who is not also a candidate in veterinary 
medicine. 
(The examination of veterinary surgeons shall not be on the 
same branches of the curriculum which belong to the examination 
for candidature.—W.). 
