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of Veterinary Medicine, and has some money endowed for the improvement of 
this branch of Agricultural Studies. Beyond the appointment of Colonel McCullough, 
who claims no right to the teaching of veterinary medicine, further than generalties 
and Comparative Anatomy, I am not aware that any professor has been appointed to 
the chair yet. 
The Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, founded in 1S62 and opened in 
1873, has a chair of agriculture, with Professor Norton S. Townsend, M. D., as teacher. 
The study of Anatomy is worked practically in the dissecting room upon smaller 
animals, such as sheep, pigs, dogs, while the horse and ox are dissected whenever 
opportunities offer. The lectures on Diseases of Animals—medical and surgical treat¬ 
ment—are occupying the second and third term of the second and third year of Agricul¬ 
ture. No degree is given as Veterinary Surgeon. 
The Maryland Agricultural College has lectures delivered to its class on Veterin¬ 
ary Medicine and Surgery, with Youatt and Martin on the Horse and Cattle as text 
books. 
The Agricultural College of Pennsylvania has lectures on Veterinary Science de¬ 
livered to the senior students of the sophomore class. 
The course on Agriculture at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, has, in her 
second term, a series of lectures on Human and Comparative Physiology and Veterinary 
Medicine and Surgery. 
The Iowa State Agricultural College announces for the second term of senior stu¬ 
dents a course of lectures on Veterinary Science and Practice. 
The State Agricultural College of Vermont, in its last circular, says, that arrange¬ 
ments have been made by which hereafter a series of lectures on Veterinary Science 
and Practice will be given as mav be needed. 
Some years ago the Bussey Institute of Boston had a chair of Veterinary Medi¬ 
cine filled by Dr. Slade, which, however, had little attendance. 
In 1868, we all remember the excitement caused by the appearance of Texas fever 
in cattle on this side of the country. Cattle were dying rapidly. The whole country 
was alarmed. So sudden did it appear that scarcely any one was ready to meet the 
emergency. Every one who had an official character was ignorant and at a loss as to 
what the disease was, its nature, and what sanitary measures were necessary to check 
its ravages. Health Boards, composed of physicians having no official veterinarian 
were in the dark, and many dollars were spent to satisfy the public which could have 
been saved if veterinary surgeons, who had no difficulty in recognizing the carbuncular 
nature of the disease, had been connected with those boards. At that time Professor 
J. Gamgee was in this country trying to introduce a process for preserving meats ; the 
government took advantage of his visit and had him appointed special commis¬ 
sioner to investigate the disease ; and it is to be regretted that the Professor did not 
. seize that opportunity to bring the veterinary profession forward more than he did, and * 
which he could have done by the prestige which surrounded his name and by his well- 
known ability. 
Ibis appointment and its recognition by the general government, had some influ¬ 
ence however, upon the importance of veterinary science in connection with Health 
Board, and it is then that we see the appointment of E. F. Thayer in Massachusetts— 
of A. Liautard in New York—of A. Large in Brooklyn—of N. Cressy in Connecticut; 
and from 1S72, when their work and knowledge began to be appreciated, their 
services are slowly getting a better recognition. The Epizootic of 1872 has been for 
