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animals are brought in from the neighborhood and treated free of charge for the 
benefit of the class. However the purpose of the school is not to give a full Veter¬ 
inary education, but at the same time several students have become, I understand, 
good practitioners. The principal lectures dwell on Entomology, Physiology and gen¬ 
eral Veterinary Science. , 
In the same year 1868, Cornell University appreciates the need of such a branch 
in her curriculum, and by the example of what she sees in the European Agricultural 
Schools, she goes to England and appoints through President White, Professor James 
Law, M. R. C. V. S. L., already the author of a work on the Anatomy of Domestic 
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Animals, to the chair of Veterinary Medicine. As Professor Law reached America we 
had then the excitement caused by the appearance of the Texas fever brought on 
this side of the Continent, and it was at the post-mortem of a bullock killed at the 
Abattoir in New York, that I had the pleasure of meeting him. His remarks on that 
disease are found in the report of the Health Board of 1869. Filling the position of 
Veterinary Editor of the New York Weekly Tribune, he is soon appointed Consulting 
Veterinary Surgeon to the Agricultural Society of New York State. At Cornell, the 
chair of Veterinary Medicine covers an immense field, and though it claims to work 
somewhat on the same principle as the school of Grignon in France, its curriculum is 
most extensive. 
The regular course for students in Agriculture and .Natural History embraces: 
First. Five lectures per week, extending over the academic year. 
Second. Laboratory work on bones, skeletons, clastic models, pathological pre¬ 
parations and parasites. 
Third. Clinical instruction on the cases occuring in practice. The text books and 
books of reference, are of the most recent date, all modern European authorities are 
brought forward. 
For the degree of Bachelor of Veterinary Science, a four years course is provided 
for, the last two years of which are entirely devoted to special veterinary studies, and 
embrace a most complete curriculum. 
Anatomy, Physiology, Histology, Zootechny, Hygiene, Botany, Toxicology, and 
Pharmacy, with Therapeutics being in the hands of some of the teachers of the Agri¬ 
cultural Department of the University, 
To the chair of Veterinary Medicine are left—Principles and Practice, Surgery, 
Obstetrics, Surgical Pathology and Anatomy, Examination of Soundness, Principles of 
Shoeing, physiological and pathological. 
Although this may seem a very heavy load to carry for that department, it must 
be remembered that six ( two being post-graduates ) years’ study is required, followed 
by a satisfactory examination, thesis, etc., before the degree of D. V. M. (Doctor of 
Veterinary Medicine) is granted by Cornell University. 
In later years the Agricultural School of Amherst tried to follow the same road 
and, in 1869, J. Stickney, M. R. C. V. S. L,, occupied the position of Lecturer on 
Diseases of Domestic Animals. In 1873, Dr. Noah C'ressy, a graduate of human med¬ 
icine, was appointed to fill the same department. The curriculum is much limited 
although it includes lectures on Comparative Anatomy, General Pathology, Veterinary 
Medicine, and Clinical Surgery, thus giving a general outline of veterinary practice in 
connection with agricultural education, I understand the attendance to this instruction 
is quite small. 
Virginia, in the Washington and Lee University, has recently created a department 
