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ears. Ilis grooms were taught their duties with nice speciality; the 
mane and tail to be thoroughly washed; the food and bed to be prop- 
erly and regularly prepared, and treatment to be always gentle and 
kind. Exception may perhaps be taken to his doctrine in regard to 
stall floors. Moist ones he says injure the hoof. Better to have 
stones inserted in the ground close to one another, equal in size to 
their hoofs; for such stalls consolidate the hoofs of those standing on 
them, besides strengthening the hollow of the foot.” * 
The great Hippocrates did not hesitate to combine veterinary with 
human medicine, exercising his skill upon the horse as well as upon 
his rider. He even wrote a treatise upon the curative treatment 
of horses. 
Among the Latins, we may mention Vegetius, styled the Veter- 
inary Hippocrates, who flourished three hundred years after Christ, 
and in whose writings were concentrated all that had been collected 
by former veterinary authors. 
Coming down to modern times, among the patrons of this science, 
we find, in the sixteenth century, Francis the First, who by causing 
the translation of Greek authors into Latin, and afterwards into 
the modern languages, disseminated knowledge throughout Europe. 
Among the great works thus spread abroad were those of Vegetius. 
Near the end of the seventeenth century a large volume was issued 
by Sollysel, who was a riding-master; and, as his school was in great 
repute at this time, it followed that the treatment of equine dis- 
eases became very much confined to the masters of the art of equi-' 
tation, which was an injury to the progress of veterinary science, 
inasmuch as it fell in a great measure into the hands of persons who 
had not received a medical education. Without enumerating the 
many distinguished writers on this science who appeared during 
the eighteenth century, we may mention that, in 1761, France, under 
the royal patronage, established a public veterinary college at Lyons, 
having the celebrated Bourgelat as professor; and, in 1766, a second 
public school was opened at Alfort; and others subsequently at Stras- 
bourg and Montpellier. Contemporary with Bourgelat, and instructor 
at Lyons, was La Fosse, who, by his writings and discoveries, com- 
municated in the form of memoirs to the Royal Academy of Sciences 
at Paris, did very much towards the advancement of veterinary medi- 
* Op. cit. p. 19. 
