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aroused in our government regarding this disease, but at the same 
time we do not intend to submit to the implied reflection that 
until his visit we did not know or believe that our States were in¬ 
fected with contagious pleuro-pneumonia. 
Respectfully, 
A. A. Holcombe, D.V.S., 
Adjunct Professor of Surgery, American Veterinary College 
New York, July 21st, 1879. 
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VETERINARY MEDICINE IN SWEDEN. 
By Prof. E. Morell, of Stockholm. 
The first veterinary school of Sweden was founded by Hern 
guist(born in 1726). After passing his examination for Doctor of 
Philosophy at Upsala, he went in 1763, to France, where in Lyons 
he studied veterinary medicine. In 1771 he founded the veteri 
nary school of Skara, and was professor to that school in 1778. 
He remained in this function till his death (1808). He was a 
writer and practitioner of merit. One of his best students, S. 
Norling, took his place in 1811. In 1820 he organized, by order 
of the government, the veterinary school of Stockholm, and was 
appointed director. He held this position in both schools till he 
died (1855). The Skara school was a preparatory school to that 
of Stockholm, where the students, after two or three years, passed 
their examinations of veterinarians. In those days as now, there 
were scholars from Swedan, Norway and Finland. A large num¬ 
ber of the veterinarians of those three countries come from the 
Stockholm school. 
In 1867 a royal ordinance required, for entrance to the Stock¬ 
holm school, the degree of bachelor es letters. This measure ele- 
vating the veterinary education, was taken through the exertions 
of Professor Fredrick Luudbrey, and instead of diminishing the 
