Excerpt from An Essay on the Veterinary Art: Setting Forth Its Great Usefulness, Giving an Account of the Veterinary Colleges in France and England, and Exhibiting the Facility and Utility of Instituting Similar Schools in the United States, To Which Is Added, a Few Hints Upon the Propriety of Conne

The word Science in its most comprehensive sense means Knowledge, - in its general acceptation it is "Knowledge reduced to a system, " that is to say, arranged in regular order, so that it can be conveniently taught, - easily remembered, - and readily applied to useful purposes.

An Art is the application of knowledge to some practicable end, - to answer some ornamental or useful purpose. The Arts are divided into fine and the useful.

If the knowledge be merely accumulative experience, the art is called empirical, but if the knowledge is experience, guided by reason, - based upon general principles, - and brought under their control, it is a scientific art.

Veterinary comprehends a knowledge of the external form as well as the internal structure and economy of domestic quadrupeds, the appropriate management of them, and the nature, causes and cure of their diseases.

The Veterinary is a "Scientific Art" in the strictest sense of the term. It invites its votaries to the following studies, viz : -

1st. The different species, and various races of the domestic animals, - their different breeds, - the uses to which each breed is applicable, - the useful crossings of breeds, and the most economical and best methods of producing, rearing and feeding each class and breed.

2nd. The breaking, educating, training and fattening certain domestic animals.

3rd. Commercial jurisprudence, as regards domestic animals, including the uses to which can be applied, to the best advantage, their flesh, hides, offals of their hides, tallow, hair, wool, horns, teeth, hoofs, entrails, blood and bones.

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