VETERINARY EDUCATION. 
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If any result is produced, I am of the opinion that hot water, mus¬ 
tard and other counter-irritants applied to the lumbar region do harm 
rather than good. My treatment has consisted of a full dose of cathar¬ 
tic medicine, followed by a powder composed of : Atropin (Keith & 
Co.’s), grs. iii; arsenic, grs. ii. placed on the tongue three times a day 
until convalescent. 
This has served me very well as will be seen by the results obtained. 
I do not claim that it has any particular merit, or that it is particularly 
scientific, or that some of these-cases “might not have recovered with¬ 
out any treatment,” but such as it has been I am pleased to relate it. 
VETERINARY EDUCATION. 
By D. McEACHRAN, F.R. C.V.S., 
Principal of the Montreal Veterinary College. 
[i Continued from Page 50.] 
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In the last number of the Review we intimated that we would refer 
in this to the profession as taught in Canada. Occupying the position 
which I do, and having from the commencement been intimately con¬ 
nected with Veterinary education in this country, I feel it a somewhat 
delicate duty to criticise the curriculce of our Veterinary Colleges, more 
especially as that criticism will necessarily be, in some respects, unfa¬ 
vorable. Unpleasant as the duty is, the interests of the profession de¬ 
mand that we should let no obstacle debar us from a fearless exposure 
of what we know to be wrong, and an equally public recognition of true 
merit wherever found. I trust, therefore, that the following remarks 
will be credited to a desire on the part of the writer to bring about re¬ 
forms in our Canadian schools which, as the sequel will show, are ur¬ 
gently demanded. 
It is not my intention to deal with the early struggles of the science 
in this Dominion ; suffice it to say that the history of Veterinary educa¬ 
tion dates from 1861, when Professor Smith commenced to give a six 
weeks’ course to the agricultural students attending Professor Buck- 
land’s lectures at Toronto. Having been associated with Mr. Smith for 
three sessions at the commencement of the school, I am in a position 
to testify to the many difficulties and disadvantages under which the 
