The morning call., 1891-12-25
WEIRD AND GHOULISH
The Dissectiug- Room of a Veteri.
nary College.
A Decidedly Novel and Somewhat Make a.
Cold Chill Run Down Ones
Back Experience.

1t Is weird and ghoulish place-the dis
sectng-room of the veterinary college on
Sycamore street, Cincinnati II is on the
fourth floor of brick building, a large room
24X90 feet. One climbs from floor to floor
by series of narrow stairways, through
the laboratory, lecture-room and hospital to
the chopping-up place of deceased equines.
The smell is decidedly horsey, corpsey and
medicinal. Yet the room is lighted on three
sides and cheerful. 1T is place for persons
of delicate nerves to keep out of. They
might faint. A few evenings ago an En-
quirer reporter dropped in. and though he
had often visited human diSSecting- rooms and
was not unfamiliar with corpses, yet the
CHASTITY remains OF bridleless nags, some
hung by chains to the ceiling nth two legs
gone. others with their entire insides
scO0ped out Others cut in two in the middle,
and others just opened and half skinned,
with their lungs, heart and entire inside
organization exposed, was decidedly novel
and somewhat make-a-co ld-chill-run-down-
one shack experience. There were thirty
four men at work at various benches on the
cadavers. They all seemed to be terribly
in earnest, as if they came for purpose.
One young man, beginner, had sore
leg, which he had skinned, and, with his
horSe-diSsecting manual before him, was
cutting out the muscles and ligaments and
learning their names. Professor Kelly was
showing a student how to dissect horses
head.
Here is the throat" he said. "Ths is
what corresponds TO Adams apple. As the
horse has no tonsis. no cavicle, as man,
yet lungs, he can have pneumonia. The
horse in question was an old one, probably
% and past, and died of pneumonia. Tuber-
culosiS bacilli had been discovered in both
lungs, and myriad of podules, hardened
Jumps, Containing bacilli.
Professor T., f. Caldwell the micrOscnn-
ist Of Walnut Hills, has made an examina-
tlon and pronounced the pneumonia marked
which may be considered something of
news, as horsemen have contended that
horses do not have pneumonia.
Perhaps the most horrible sight was that
OF portion of horse, hung, what there
was left of him, by a chain to the rafters,
attached to hooks in the flank and neck.
The nag's insides had all been removed, so
had Its hide. also three of his legs. Such a
looking object, with its dull, BLUSH, CLASSY
eyes and grinning teeth, daubed with blood,
llgaments, muscles and nerves disSected out,
would make about the worst ghost any one
ever ran into on lonely road of dark
night.
In the center of the room was a cannon
stove, and by it sat a student reading. One
was cutting up some part of an animal on a
board that he held on his lap rs he sat close
TO window. All the men wore white over
ais and jackets, which were spotted with
horse-bloOd in spots, streaks and stripes,
along the wall being similar suits similarly
Large fat tables only a foot from the
floor are used to put the horse cadavers on,
and these can be wheel led about, and by the
aid of two iron poles and hooks the carcass
adjusted for work. Immense tubs lay about,
containing livers. lungs, hearts, kidneys,
and all the contents Of the various animal
cavities.
Cadavers are worked upon from a month
los X weeks. The arteries are emptied and
injected with pulyerizad starch, culored
with ultra-marine blue. The veins, on ac-
count Of their valves, are not injected-only
blown up. The students first start on the
bones. then dissect for ligaments and mus
cles, afterward for nerves, then the viscera,
the lungs, heart and circulation are all
studied.