Materia Medica. In this department the different drugs and preparations used in veterinary medicine and surgery will be fully described, and the crude articles shown to the students during the lectures and in the Hospital Pharmacy. Physiology. Professor FRASER. The course of lectures on this subject embraces two full scholastic years. During the first year the nature and object of physiology, characters of plants and animals, the animal cell, and the methods of reproduction, etc., will be fully discussed. The blood and the phenomena of circulation, respiration, and digestion, will be particularly dwelt upon. In the second year the nervous system and special senses will be fully described and illustrated by drawings, diagrams, and vivisection performed before the class when necessary. Helminthology. Professor SKAIFE. (a) Parasites from the animal kingdom. Protozoa; spirozoa; vermes; helminths; nemathelminths; anthropodis; insecta, etc. (b) Parasites from the vegetable kingdom. Hermatophytes; saccharomycetes; haplococcus; aspergilli; actinomycetes. Canine Medicine and Surgery. 1. General diseases. Contagious-Distemper; Professor SKAIFE. influenza: tuberculosis; typhoid and typhus fevers; scarlet fever; diphtheria; rabies; anthrax; glanders; variola. Non-Contagious—Rickets, rheumatism, dropsy, etc. 2. Diseases of special organs, including-cardiac and vascular diseases; diseases of respiratory organs; diseases of digestive apparatus; urinary organs; sexual organs; nervous system; diseases of the skin; diseases of the organs of special sense. 3. Fractures, dislocations, wounds. 4. Poisons, poisoning, antidotes. Dermatology. Professor SKAIFE. Including the horse, ox, sheep, pig, dog, and cat. Therapeutics. Professor STEERS. In this course of lectures there are considered the physiological actions of medicines and their application to the treatment of disease, and circumstances indicating or contradicting their use. The therapeutic properties of various medicinal agents of the Pharmacopoeia as grouped under stimulants, sedatives, narcotics, tonics, cathartics, diuretics, diaphoretics, caustics, counter-irritants, antiseptics. Individual drugs treated separ ately. Veterinary Obstetrics. Professor STEERS. This branch of veterinary science will consist of didactic lectures on the proper procedure in parturition; including presentations, maternal and fœtal dystokia, dystokia from malpresentation, obstetrical operations, etc., illustrated by drawings, and, when opportunity offers, by practical demonstration on the living female. Practice of Bovine Medicine. Dr. WELSH. This will include a complete course of lectures on the diseases affecting cattle, sheep, and swine; embracing the etiology, symptomatology, physical diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of those diseases. Contagious diseases of all animals will be considered, and the following topics fully discussed: Predisposition, immunity, contagion, infection, and miasm; their origin, nature, diffusion, reception, and mode of access, prevention and suppression, general prophylactic, preventive, and repressive measures. Pathology. The funda This course will be made as practical as possible. mental principles of general pathology will be especially dwelt upon, followed by a more minute study of their application to the individual organs and tissues. The use of the microscope and the methods of preparing material for microscopic examinations will receive attention. Bacteriology. The importance and practical value of this subject are becoming more and more evident, and therefore its essentials will be fully considered. The preparation of culture media and the methods of cultivating, staining, and examining bacteria will be described. EXAMINATIONS AND DEGREE. Examinations will be held at the close of each term, which students must pass before proceeding to the studies of the next year. At the close of the third year, after passing a satisfactory examination, the student will receive the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Science from the University of California. REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION. (a) The candidate for the degree Doctor of Veterinary Science must have attained the age of twenty-one years, and be of good moral character. (b) He must have studied veterinary science for three full years, and have attended three full courses of lectures in separate calendar years, the last of which must be in this college. (c) He must have passed the required examinations, written and oral, and obtained at least fifty per centum of marks in each subject of the curriculum, and seventy-five per centum in the whole examination. (d) He must have pursued the study of practical anatomy during at least two sessions and present certificates from the Professor of Anatomy of having dissected every part of the cadaver. (e) He must have paid in full all college fees, including the graduation fee. TEXT BOOKS AND BOOKS OF REFERENCE. Anatomy-Chauveau's Comparative Anatomy, by George Fleming; Strangeway, Liautard's "Vade Mecum." Physiology-R. M. Smith, Mills. Surgery-Williams, Liautard, Möllers. REG.-24 Entozoa-Cobbold, Neuman by Fleming. Histology-Schaefer. Canine Practice-Mills, Steel Hill, Mayhew, Ashmont, MüllersGlass. Cattle Practice-Steel. Materia Medica and Therapeutics-Findley, Dunn and Friedberger, and Frohner's Pathology and Therapeutics. Chemistry-Roscoe's Elementary Chemistry. Principles and Practice of Medicine-Williams, Robertson, Creswell, Friedberger and Frohner. Obstetrics-Fleming. Comparative Anatomy-Huxley. Lameness and Shoeing-Percival, Liautard, Fleming, Zundel, Roberge. Hygiene, Quarantine, etc.-Fleming's Veterinary Sanitary Science and Police, Wally, Smith. Dermatology-Williams. Veterinary Dentistry-Sayre, Clark, Hinebauch, Huidekoper's Age of Domesticated Animals. Exterior of the Horse-Gonbaux and Barrier. Bacteriology-Woodhead, Cruikshank. Miscellaneous-Fleming on Roaring, Dunglison, Gould's, Keating's Medical Dictionaries, U. S. Dispensary, Tuson's Pharmacology, McNutt's Diseases of the Kidneys and Bladder. For further information, address the Secretary. |