The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-05-14

foremost in many of the branches or science ana
art Is In veterinary mediciHe century behind behind
nary Surgeons Is The only one In the country. The
time will come when there will be veterinary col
better Tor the interests OF the country. What we
are, as nation, has sprung from our unparalleled
our 1--we stock. What we are to be VIII depend upon
the preservation and multiplication OF these devei-
oping agencies. While we bask in the
SUNSHINE OF UNExAMPLED PROSPERITY,
let US not forget the creatures without whose pnys-
cal laber we would have been able to develop
our territory, and OBTAIN from the soil It's products
Indeed without the labor OF the domestic animals
the world would still be uncivilized, and all coun-
tries be In low state or barDarlsm.
In 1860 the domestic animals in the United States
were 5000 900 horses and mules, increase 100 per
per cent in decade "a o00 600 sheep, increase 100
per cent In decade; 81 00o, 900 SWINE, increase IS
per cent. IN decade. Their aggregate value was
years from 1850. One-hlth OF the whole value was
owned in New York State alone. rher approxma-
OF cost OF feeding &C., calculating 12ooo,ooo
working horses, mules and Jokes or 0xen and
es eo a. @ Gay op sSS wSns
Animals slaughtered for food worth $3.50, 100000;
butter aSo Gooo0o lbs worth $50, 600 600; cheese
lbs, worth s24,ooo.0oo.
The above gives q total revenue of over
national debt. Add TO mis- the value OF the animals
ana we have IN 1860 the enormous wealth OF over
AS an illustration OF the increase from 1850 to
1860 the yield OF wool In the Pacific States IS most
St king IN 1850 It was but ios while In 1850
items that shows the increasing importance OF our
In addition to this aggregate wealth we must
bear in mind that our breeds OF animals con-
stantly being improved. To-day
WE HAVE OUR DEXTER AND KENTUCKY,
our Hambletonlans. our Aderneys, Dev0nshires
and Dnrhams, our Southdowns and Merlnos, our
many breeds OF fowls.
Aside from the claims which the domestic ami
mails have upon our gratitude, and their importance
In our political economy they enlist the noblest and
purest feelings OF mans nature; pity for suffering
ana humanity to minister to It's ALIENATION. 10
apply the words put into the mouth OF Shyock by
snakspeaIe, "Have they not eyes Have they not
organs, dimensions, senses, affections, Dassonsp
Fed with the same food, hurt with the same wea-
pons, subject TO the same diseases, healed by the
same means cooled and warmed by the same WIN
ter ana summer as human beings? II you prick
them do they not bieedY II you poison them do they
not deY'
ANIMALS ARE, LIKE OURSELVES,
susceptible to physical 1nfiuences have keen
which are anlenable to the same treatment; they
also capable OF as strong attacnments-.f aithful
become the greater when we remember that their
domestcati0n by us, to supply our Physiological
cessltles and minister 70 our comfort, entails upon
state they are exempt.
Connected with the New YORK College Of veteri-
nary Surgeons Is o museum which contains nearly
5000 specimens OF healthy and diseased tissues. Of
fering the histologlst and comparative anatomist
field Tor investigation not excelled by any medical
college in the United states. This museum Is open
daily Sundays excepted to the public and the medi
open 10 subscribers and others upon the following
c0nditlOns:-The sum OF $3.50 paid in advance con-
st;utes life membership. with the privilege to at
tend the lectures, visit the library, museum and hos
pital and TO send their own horses the college
inspection, advice and medical treatment, free OF
charge teXpenses OF keep excepted) and have free
Also to nave the opinion OF the professors as to the
medical treatment Of animals they may desire
retain IN their own possession, without payment OF
fee, and to be supplied with medicines from the col
lege al very low charges but the professors are not
expected 10 visit patients out or Lie lnirmary.
Annual subscribers on the payment OF ten dollars a
year (in advance) shalt have the same privileges
lie members except the Tree scholarship during the
continuance OF such annual subscription. The
charges for keeping win be regulated according to
the market value Of food. The expenses on every
animal must be paid on its being removed from the
college. professor Is In attendance daily, except
F. NJ during the summer, and in the winter IRON ON
nine A. M until dark; during which time patients
may be admitted or discharged, but urgent cases
The total cost OF course to students in this COL
lege for matriculation, lectures, dlssectlng room
privileges &C., Is but 1856. pupil, prior to his exam
nation, must have fully dssected as many subjects
as the professor IN each department shall think
necessary Tor the attainment OF
PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE OF ANATOMY,
and must also have given due attention to the de-
OCTOBER aud terminate the latter end OF
February, but the clinical instruction may be at
tended throughout the year.
The relations between human and veterinary
medicine are probably much more close and init
mate lflan can be determined the existing
OF our knowledge. We cannot tell what influence,
ii any, the diseases OF the human race exert upon
the inferior ANIMALS. or those Of the latter upon the
former. All tnat Is positively ascertaned Is that
their maladles, both benign and malignant, congo.
nial and acquired have much in common with each
other. Some oil the best anu most instructive les
III pathological anatomy that / have ever
learned were derived from the study OF the diseases
tue inferior animals. especially those OF the horse
dog ana hog The various KINDS OF worms or hyda.
tdS WHICH lnfesL the human subject are AL prOba-
by, derived from the lower ANIMALS. No one can
al IN nf
much patient labor and research may nave done to
the human race.
Boards OIL health are beginning gradually to
realize the TACT that
vErERtNAaY SURGEONS ARE THEIR PEERS
in medical science, and public opinion VIII soon
teach cur legislators That sanitary bodies without
veterinary inspectors like skulls without brains
or SHIPS without rudders. II man undertakes TO
Practise rs physician without proper qualifications
he IS very properly called quack and the medical
man who attempts TO actthe part OF veterinary
geon without making himself familiar by long and
continued study and thorough Knowledge Of the
anatomical structure of our domestic ANIMALS and
Inc proper remedies for their diseases places him.
self par with the empiric. And during the late
scourge ol rinderpest here this college gave the
Metropolitan Board Of Health the necessary lnfor-
nation whereby the plague was checked and the
country saved from untold mseries. It's faculty |
also examine and treat the animals in the Central
Park free or charge IRON year to year. Veterinary
medical literature is rather scarce among u.s. since
up TO 1868 but few over 1900 volumes have ap-
peared il Europe and America on TINS science
HOW 40 JUDGE HORSE.
Professor varnell, of England. IN recent lecture
before the Mutlord ana Lothlneund Agricultural |
Society, gave them some valuable suggestions In
regard to the qualifications ana treatment especially
OF agricultural and draught horses. The lecturer
believed that with the Introduction OF machinery the
golden period OF the Cart horse had passed away. |
Agricultural horses, he said, should be free from
hereditary and acquired delects, OF sufficient power
to per.or fair days work without becoming |
vlsibW exhausted; free nom vice. and from fifteen |
and haii TO sixteen hands high, compact OF frame,
ana OF good constitution head, lace mouth, |
nostrls ears ana the eye should be bright and clear
In mature age. rs rule the eye IN horse from TWO
TO iive years old Is less brilliant than In older
morse. purchaser should not omit to examine the
interior oil the mouth. me neck witners chest and
the ioius should be broad and muscular. Too much
importance can not be attached TO the form and de.
OF the hind quarters; for there the great
power To mt weight exists In regard 10 color there
Is a trlte saying among h0rsemen that
"A GOOD HORSE HAS ALWAYS A GOOD COLoR.r
II has been demonstrated also, by close and at
ientlve observation, that white legs and feet are |
more SUBJECT to disease than dark ones, ana Il Is
common phrase among men, mo feet no horse,
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