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too often the cause of failure ? Have we not often seen our best book 
and lecture room knowledge students, make most unpardonable prac¬ 
tical mistakes, when they have assumed practice for themselves? 
On these grounds alone should we not urge an increased length of 
pupilage ? 
It is much to be desired that those who wish to become members 
°f the profession should devote their whole time to it, and not as is 
too often the case study merely during the session and immediately it 
is over undertake other duties which have no relation to the science. 
I need not refer to the early history of the profession in America. 
Professor Liautard in the first issue of the Review having laid that 
ably before our readers and to that paper I refer those who wish to 
know the ups and downs of veterinary education in the United States. 
What I have chiefly to do with in this paper is the teaching of the 
profession as it is at the present time in the United States and 
Canada. 
At New York we have the American Veterinary College, under 
the able superintendence of Professor Alexander Liautard, M. D. V. S.. 
a gentleman who from his enthusiasm and extensive medical knowledge 
and who having the best interests of the profession at heart, is emin¬ 
ently fitted to be a teacher of the science. At this school the follow¬ 
ing course of study is given—see annual announcement 1876: 
“ The curriculum provides for a thorough theoretical and practical 
medical education ; the fundamental medical sciences Anatomy, 
Physiology, and Chemistry; together with theory and practice of 
Veterinary Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics, Materia Medica and Thera¬ 
peutics are lectured upon during a regular winter session of four and 
a half to five months? At the end of the winter session a spring 
couise has been opened embracing different branches with lectures on 
Comparative Anatomy, Jurisprudence, Sanitary Medicine, External 
Forms of the horse and Pharmacy. 
The requirements for graduation are, twenty-one years of age, a 
certificate of three years study of medicine, attendance on two full 
courses of medical lectures ,, the last being in this college, . A good 
English education, proper testimonials of character, and a satisfactory 
wi ittcn 01 al and piactical examination, bg the professor of each depart¬ 
ment of instruction. 
I am happy to say that the principal of this college is fully alive 
to the fact that the session is too short, and also that three sessions 
