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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1871
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101 AFTERNOON SESSION. The Board reassembled at 2:15 P . M., the Eegent in the chair. The report of the Veterinary Surgeon, Dr. J . H. Detmers, was then read : REPORT OF VETERINARY SURGEON. The Veterinary Infirmary of the Illinois Industrial University opened January 9, 1871, with four patients, and since that time up to the present date, March 11, ten patients—eight horses, one mule, and one steer—have received feed and treatment in the stable, of which, three horses are yet in treatment. Forty-five other patients, among them one cow, have been brought to the clinic, and have been examined by the students ; their diseases and ailments have been discussed and diagnosticated, medicines, where deemed necessary, have been prescribed, several operations hav6 been performed and advice given, so that in all, fifty five animals have been examined and treated. These fifty-five patients have been also used more or less for illustrating the lectures on exterior, and in all the discussions especial attention has been paid to the predisposing as well as the exciting causes of the different ailments and diseases, and the means by which the same might have been prevented. Respecting the treatment, preference has always been given to the most simple rational and effective methods. Complicated and hypothetic treatments have been avoided as much as possible. The ten patients, treated and kept in the infirmary stable, have received, during the sixty-two days of the existence of the Infirmary, two hundred and twenty-one days feed, which shows an average per diem of three to four patients. The lowest number of patients has been two, and the greatest number five, which is all that can be accommodated. One steer, suffering with cancer in the superior maxillary bone, has been donated to the University by Mr. Phinney, and has been killed for anatomical purposes. Deaths have not occurred; but five of the patients have been pronounced incurable, among them the above mentioned steer. One horse has been presented for examination on account of his behavior like a stallion, and he has been found to be a ridgling.
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