Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-03-23

TRAINS ARRIVE AT BURLINGTON
Prom the North, $40 Am. and Lac, 72e and lopm
From the East, $40 and ; ~ m, sos and STOP N.
From the South, $50 a. m, and 5O' and f:lu y. LIZ
TRAINS LEAVE BURLINGTON.
Going North, 100 and 1881 B. M; s:oosnd 7:lo p u
Going East, 7:3U a. H., and Il. Is, and 6:5O p. N.
Going South. So a. N. and 800 and 7'&o p W.
Veterinary Science.
THE UNIVERSITY COURSE OF VETERINARY
LECTURES BY PROF. CREssY, AT THE
MEDICAL COLLEGE.
The course of lectures on Veterinary Sci
ence. provided for by the University, to De
delivered in connection with the annual
course of lectures in the Medical Depart
ment. by Prof. Noah Cressy, NJ. D., OF Am
herst Mass. opened at the Medical College on
THURSDAY. March 10 The lecture-room was
well filed. A good number of the medical
students were present, together with prac-
teal farmers, from Pomfret, TOwnshend.
Swanton, Bakersfield, johnson, Georgia,
Essex, South Burlington. and other Yer
mont towns. Worcester, Mass, and repre-
sentatiges of our Burlington and Chitten-
den county stock growers and farmers. Doc
tors Carpenter, Grinnell, Calkins, Collier,
and others of the Medical Faculty. occupied
seats near the lecturer.
The lecturer was introduced hS Pfoi
Buekham.
PRESIDENT EuCKHANs REMAINS
President Buekham said that perhaps
Professor Cre>sy's hardest work would De
TO keep up with the reputation he had maze
hy hi- lectures among the farmers during
the wirter. The college had employed HIM
10 rive instruction on this subject at various
farmers meetings, and there had come
back To the college high testimonies oil the
value +, I thee lectures. But, of course, such
systematic ard thorough instruction ~
would be given here. would be OF lar greater
practical service. Vermont i famous Tor
valuable animals. will not, SAID the Pres
ident, he unkind ard LAY that their owners
sometimes think more OF them than OF their
wives and children. but they value them
highly. And yet, when these animals are
SICK. they are forced to commit them to the
tender mrrcies of ignorant and cruel quaeks,
ard see them die of diseases which little
veterinary knowledge might have enabled
them To cure. | see q gentleman IN this
room " BIO told me yesterday that he saved
valuable animal by means OF information
he got Mt one of Prof. Cressy's lectures:
Speaking to the medical class. the Pres
iiert said: know gentlemen, that there Is
u prt JUDGE against combining these two
kind, of practice. But what is the history
of YOUR profession but a series OF conquests
over br, JUDGE? The time was when 1t was
bentath Ihe dignity of a physician to bleed
or cup patient. When well-educateo
physicians qualify themselves TO prescribe
Tor sick animals, the practice will become
respectable. and remunerative too, especial
" in the country and that isa matter of
ZONE Consequence to young physician
waiting for practice. Ii will be gratifying
to the Trustees of the University to see a
large attendance. both of young farmers
and medical students. on this course OF
lectures.
THE LECTURE.
Prof. Greasy said he was proud Ct the
honor of delivering the first course OF Neter-
mary Lectures. ever given IN Medical Col
Iege in this country in connection with
regular course of instruction. Ii was
to the credit Of this University that it had
inaugurated this step in advance. 1t is a
move in the right direction. As q mem
her of the medical profession. and proud OF
it, he took the ground that the physician
il the most useful. in any community, who
Is the best educated. and thus trained on all
points connected with the healing art, for
man or beast. There is close connection
between Medical and Veterinary science. The
Veterinarian must study comparative anato-
my and physiology, which branches are
now beginning to occupy so large place IN
your physiological studies. Chemistry and
therapeutics, materla medlca. and OBJ |
stetrics are equally important to the
veterinary student. The information gain
ed on these branches in q regular course OF
medical instruction will be of direct and |
important service to him. And when he |
comes to the study of pathology he will
have to widen his field of observation, |
for there are diseases Of animals, such as |
the SPAWN in horse. not found in man.
Yet in the incipient stages, SPAWN is akin to |
some diseases Of the human subject. Other |
diseases are substantially similar in the |
human subject and in the animal. Thus. |
pleuro-pneumOnia i the " Massachusetts |
Cattle disease" so sly led in the old Bay |
State. time out of mind. And it is
If direct advantage to the medical
student TO extend his study of patho-
logv to the lower animals, among
which pathological specimens can be OBJ
tain,d with - much facility. The country
doctor should understand Veterinary
science. il for no other reason, in order
to take care of his own horse
and COW. The doctors are proverbially
hard on their borses. They make plenty Of
specimens in Veterinary pathology, and
they ought to he able to tell the differ
ence between ring-bOne and SPAWN. The
educated physicians are to blame for large
share of the qrackery which prevails IN Vet
Urinary practice. They have considered |
it derugatory to them to undertake horse |
dOcterlng They have refused to make
their studies and experience available for
the relief Of the lower animals. though they
might be made Of the utmost service in this
direction. They have lett the horses and |
cattle to the tender mercies of quacks.
But the true student should allow no such |
restriction OF his usefulness. lie should I'M
derstsnd all branches Of his profession, and
1t should not be beneath him to be merclful
to a suffering beast.
There II movement, on foot, among the
friends Of Liberal Education to advance
the standards Of proficiency Of medical in.
structlon, and the time Is coming when Vet
Urinary science will be regarded a. the
brother OF Human Medicine, and when the
degree of NJ. V. ID. doctor Of Veterinary
Medicine) will he given by our Universities,
as well as that of VI. ID.
When halt of the troubles Of cattle
horses and swine are referred TO such imag-
mary ailments as horn all wuli-tOoth."
and black-toOth; and when soft soap and
SCOT are iayurIre remedies, there Is certainly
need oil more and better instruction on this
subject. The lecturer mentioned the case
nt A lhN-IgIan in Ma.-aabnya,,a
town, who was called to treat COW suffer
ing from rupture, and who, applying the
principles of surgery had bya skIiiul oper-
alton saved a valuable animal. lie was next
called TO 400 COW with a broken leg, and
Hpplltd the Lew plaster spllnt with entire
suecess lie now found such eases a val
liable addition To his practice, and instead
Oi beng lowered m his profession, he was
honortd and valued all the more for it.
Having before him a horses skull, Prot.
Cressy referred To the subject OF "wolf-
tooth, which Will he fully treated in a
iutuIe lecture In passing he said this
Is SIMPLY mllk-tOOth remaining III the
Jaw. altr The others have been shed
1t il found IN all young colts. and
sometimes ole fails TO be pushed out
by the permanent teeth and remains in the
Jaw. IL l. eniiToly harmless, yet to this the
quacAs ana horse traders ascrlbe all sorts Of
weakrtss and troubles of the eyes, and
cheat the farmers Of Vermont out of thou
ands Of Collars every year by depreciating
be valne ot h"r-es which happen to have
such teeth, Cry dealers make practice
II looking uD such horses, pronouncing
hem WORTHLESS, buying them at small
lsure. ard then pull the teeth and sell the
Inlmals IN Boston and New York at fall 1
,rices .
Prot Cre-Sy Indicated briefly tho course !
e should take in these lectures lie should
'egIn with the skeleton and Discus. the
ompaTatNe anatomy OF man and the do
nestle ANIMALS; should take up the subject t
i Homology, ~ the correspondence OF par t
lcular bones IN the human subject and in ]
be horse or COW, and should proceed to v
escribo various specific diseases of cattle.
orses. sheep ard swine, including all the u
rdInary DISEASES, and Indicate the proper i
'eatment. !.
On Saturday o. would hold a Clipioue =
IT animals =, d D.. tyvttpI I'll ,.l.