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Caption: Course Catalog - 1880-1881
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College of Agriculture. VETERINARY SCIENCE. 33 This science is taught during the third year. In the first term the Anatomy and Physiology of the Domestic Animals is taught by lectures, demonstrations and dissections. Post-mortems of healthy and diseased animals are made, so that the student may become practically acquainted with the tissues in health and in disease. The first six weeks of the second term are devoted to the study of Veterinary Medicines, their action and uses; the remainder of the term to lectures on the principles and practice of Veterinary Science. During the third term, practical instruction is given in clinical work, as cases present themselves, at the veterinary infirmary, where animals are treated or operated on free of charge, for the instruction of the students. Lectures are also given on Veterinary Sanitary Science and the Principles and Practice of Veterinary Surgery. Students desiring to pursue the study of Veterinary Science, further than is laid down in the agticultural course, will find ample facilities for so doing. Text Books and Books of Reference.—Williams' Principles and Practice of Veterinary Medicine; Williams' Principles and Practice of Veterinary Surgery; Veterinary Medicines; their Action and Uses, by Finlay Dun ; Dobson on the Diseases of the Ox; Fleming's Veterinary Obstetrics; Fleming's Veterinary. Sanitary Science; Chauveau's Anatomy of the Domestic Animals; Law's Farmer's Veterinary Adviser. LABORATORY WORK. Experiments and Special Investigations by each student. A Thesis is required embodying the results of original observation and research. For details as to the study of Botany, Chemistry, Zoology, Entomology, Geology and Meteorology, see statements in College of Natural Science. APPARATUS. The College has for the illustration of practical agriculture, a Stock Farm of 400 acres, provided with a large stock-barn fitted up with stables, pens, yards, etc.; also an Experimental Farm of 180 acres, furnished with all necessary apparatus. It has fine specimens of neat cattle, Short-Horns and Jerseys, and several breeds of swine, to illustrate the problems of breeding 3
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