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Caption: Course Catalog - 1884-1885
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38 Illinois Industrial University, •value of timber and other trees, and their artificial culture. For the latter, the forest tree plantation on the University ^grounds, and the aboretum, afford practical illustrations. Plant-Houses and Management.—This study includes gardening and landscape architecture, the methods of construction, heating and ventilation, and general management, so as to secure, under the different circumstances, the best plant growth. The class-room work consists of lectures and architectural designing and drawing. Illustration and practice are ^afforded by the plant houses of the University. VETERINARY SCIEVCE. This science is taught during the third year. In the first term the Anatomy and Physiology of the domestic animals is taught by lectures, demonstration and dissections. Postmortems of healthy and diseased animals are made, so that the students may become practically icquainted 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 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 ii* the agricultural course, •wiU 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 Sinitary Science; Chauveau's Anatomy of ihe 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 reseirch.
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