by recitations to assist in memorizing. (2) Practical exercises will be given in prescription writing, also a short course in Veterinary Pharmacology.

Third year. (1) Systematic lectures upon the physiological action of drugs and their effects in disease, their therapeutic uses, and their methods of administration to animals. (2) Prescription writing, in which students are given hypothetical cases for which to prescribe. (3) The therapeutic application of various agencies not drugs. TEXT-BOOK: Winslow's Veterinary Materia Medica and Therapeutics.

PRACTICE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE.

JOHN P. TURNER, V.M.D............ Professor of Veterinary Medicine This subject is taught by a series of lectures, recitations, quizzes, and clinics extending over a period of two years.

The student is personally drilled in all the various diseases and doctrines taught in a well regulated veterinary school.

Especial attention is given to practical work whereby the student can become proficient in the diagnosis and treatment of disease.

Visits are required to the three veterinary hospitals in connection with the University, and personal attention is given students in visits to various large stables in and adjacent to the city of Washington, where practical instruction is given the second and third year classes in physical diagnosis among horses, cows, and hogs.

Equal attention is given diseases of cattle as of horses, whereby the student is properly fitted for either city or country practice.

Diseases of food-producing animals will be thoroughly explained. TEXT-BOOKS: Friedberger and Froehner's Pathology and Therapeutics of Domestic Animals; Robertson's Practice of Equine Medicine; Williams' Principles and Practice of Veterinary Medicine; Fleming's Manual of Veterinary Sanitary Science and Police; Glass' translation of Müller's Diseases of the Dog.

VETERINARY SURGERY.

JOHN LOCKWOOD, V.S......

Professor of Veterinary Surgery WM. P. COLLINS, D.V.S....... Instructor in Clinical Veterinary Surgery

The instruction given in this course embraces systematic lectures upon the principles and practice of Veterinary Surgery.

The different surgical operations are illustrated in clinic and upon the cadaver and the uses of all the important surgical instruments and appliances are demonstrated in the same manner. The use of anæsthetics, the practice of dental surgery and castration on all domestic animals will receive special attention.

TEXT-BOOKS: Moeller's Operative Veterinary Surgery; Fleming's Operative Veterinary Surgery; Hobday's Canine and Feline Surgery; Williams' Principles and Practice of Veterinary Surgery; Pfeiffer and Williams' Surgical Operations.

BACTERIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY.

F. F. RUSSELL, M.D.......... Professor of Bacteriology and Pathology (Curator Army Medical Museum.)

Bacteriology. This subject comprises laboratory instruction in the fundamental principles and methods of pure bacteriology. Thorough drilling is given in the preparation of culture media, in disinfection, sterilization, staining, and the general methods of bacterial differentiation. Following this course, which is given daily during October, the further study of bacteria is taken up in connection with and as applied to pathology.

Pathology comprises the laboratory study of the general and special phenomena of inflammation, and a detailed study of the pathological processes found in the various diseases. The relation of bacterial and other microphytic life to disease processes and results is studied coincidentally and constitutes a course in applied bacteriology. In connection with the laboratory work a course of lectures and demonstrations is given upon immunity, serum theropy, and protective innoculation. Surgical Pathology.-A special course in the healing of wounds and injuries and in the pathology of surgical operations is given in the third year.

Clinical Microscopy, comprising the study of the various tissues, fluids, ejecta, and dejecta, with a view to diagnosis of diseased conditions, is given in the first part of the third year.

TEXT-BOOK: Abbott's Principles of Bacteriology, Delafield and Pruddean's Pathology.

CONTAGIOUS DISEASES AND SANITARY SCIENCE. ADOLPH EICHHORN, D.V.S.......... Professor of Contagious Diseases and Sanitary Science GEORGE H. HART, M.D., V.M.D......... Assistant Professor of Sanitary Science and National Quarantine

The lectures in this course will be given with reference to the etiology, pathogenesis, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of the contagious diseases. Local and national regulations and measures governing the control and eradication of diseases, with particular reference to the work of the United States Government in the eradication of contagious diseases, will be clearly explained.

TEXT-BOOKS: Moore's The Pathology of Infectious Diseases of Animals; Friedberger and Froehner's Pathology and Therapeutics of Domestic Animals.

ZOOTECHNICS AND MILK HYGIENE.

B. T. WOODWARD, V.M.D...... .Assistant Professor of Milk Hygiene and Zootechnics

The course covers the chief phases of live-stock work, including the judging, breeding, feeding, and management of horses, cattle, sheep, and swine.

It is introduced by discussions upon the origin of animal life, natural selections, the origin of breeds, and the domestication of animals. The principles of breeding, heredity, environment, selection, individual conformation, the history and development of breeds, principles of animal nutrition, balanced rations, practical feeding, and the economic production of beef, milk, mutton, and pork are given consideration. Students obtain practical experience in the judging of the various breeds and classes of animals by visits to neighboring farms.

The course in Milk Hygiene will be given by lectures and demonstrations throughout the third year. The students will be taught the theory of milk secretion, the composition and characteristics of milk, the various methods of testing, together with the chemistry and bacteriology of milk, abnormal forms of milk, and diseases transmissible through milk to bovines and humans, with a study of the epidemics produced. Sanitary stabling and the sanitary handling of milk will be considered, showing the construction of various types of dairy barns and dairy houses, the manner of milking, care of the milk, and the varieties and care of dairy utensils; also a study of sterilization and pasteurization. TEXT-BOOKS: Plumbs, Types and Breeds of Farm Animals; Pearson's translation Jensen's Essentials of Milk Hygiene.

VETERINARY ZOÖLOGY AND PARASITOLOGY.

ALBERT H. HASSELL, M.R.C.V.S...... Professor of Veterinary Zoology This course will embrace Zoology and the various parasites with which the various domestic animals are infested. Instruction as to prevention, eradication, and the treatment of the diseases caused by them will be given.

TEXT-BOOK: Neuman, Animal Parasites.

VETERINARY OBSTETRICS.

HULBERT YOUNG, V.M.D.. Assistant Professor of Veterinary Obstetrics

The course of instruction will consist of lectures on obstetrical anatomy, fœtal development, presentations, and the diseases incidental to the periods of gestation and parturition.

The lectures will be illustrated by diagrams, models, natural preparations, and other appliances for demonstrating the principles taught. TEXT-BOOK: Fleming, Dalrymple.

HORSESHOEING.

HULBERT YOUNG, V.M.D..

.Lecturer on Horseshoeing

The course is intended to familiarize students with the principles of shoeing, the examination of the feet and proper use of special shoes for relief of defects or disease.

TEXT-BOOK: Lungwitz on Horseshoeing, Adams' translation.

MILITARY PRACTICE.

HERBERT S. WILLIAMS, V.M.D.. Lecturer on Veterinary Military Practice (U. S. Army, Fort Myer, Va.)

This course consists of lectures and demonstrations of purely military veterinary subjects, and is given at Fort Myer, Va., the cavalry and artillery post near Washington, D. C.

The subjects of saddling, bitting, and draft, together with the study of the proper conformation of animals used for military purposes, are included in this set of lectures.

The control of animal epidemics in military life is also given special consideration.

VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE.

WILLIAM W. BRIDE, A.B., LL.B.. Lecturer on Veterinary Jurisprudence

A series of lectures upon the Law of Animals, including suggestions relating to the conduct of veterinarians as experts in the trial of cases involving the above law.

In addition to the foregoing courses of lectures, a number of Government experts have been engaged to give lectures on subjects of special interest to the veterinarian.

These men are specialists in their lines of scientific research, and this is the only school giving such a course.

EXAMINATIONS AND DEGREE.

Examinations are held at the end of the course in each subject. Students failing in examinations will be permitted to be reëxamined at the next regular examination period. Students will not be admitted to examination unless they have paid all fees due at the time or present a permit signed by the Dean. In order to avail themselves of the privilege of reëxamination, students must file their written applications with the Dean not later than fifteen days before the date set for the examinations.

Proficiency is marked upon a scale of 100. A grade of 70 is required to pass an examination.

If a satisfactory examination is passed, the student receives the Degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.).

THE VETERINARY LIBRARY.

This library is located in the Administration Building of the College of Veterinary Medicine, and is open from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m.

It contains, in addition to volumes on veterinary medical subjects, the current veterinary journals.

Provision is made in the annual library fee charged every student to add to it as published the important new works on veterinary medicine.

OTHER LIBRARIES.

Washington contains the Library of the Surgeon General's Office of the United States Army, the most complete medical library in the world. This library, as all other libraries of the Government, is open to the public between the hours of 9 a. m. and 4.30 p. m. There is also the Library of Congress and the many excellent libraries of the various other Government offices, in addition to the University Medical Library.

FEES AND CONTINGENT EXPENSES.

1. Matriculation fee (payable only on first entry into the University)

2. Library fee per annum.

3. Tuition fee per annum.

4. Fee for graduation.....

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A deposit of $5 per annum is required of every student to cover loss, breakage, or damage to the property of the school. The amount of such deposit paid in excess of the breakage will be returned.

No change will be made in the fees fixed at registration except in case of withdrawal, and then only upon notice in due form, and from the end