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COURSES OF STUDY.

TEXT-BOOKS.—Monnig, Veterinary Helminthology and Entomology ; Clunies Eoss and Gordon, Internal Parasites and Parasitic Diseases of Sheep. Microscopic Diagnosis of Parasitism in Domestio Animals, (Circular 496, University of Illinois, College of Agriculture). William A. Riley, Introduction to the Study of Animal Parasites and Parasitism. MEAT INSPECTION.—Lectures and practical instruction in the laboratories and at the abattoirs, on the general principles governing inspection of meat, and on the physical and chemical properties of the meat of various animals used for food; trade terms and usage; the quality of meat, noxious and injurious meat; the differential diagnosis of the various diseases which render meat unwholesome or unfit for food purposes; parasitic diseases communicable to man and other animals; food poisoning; systems of meat inspection—home and foreign; meat preservation—cold storage and canning. Students are required to spend at least a fortnight gaining practical experience at an approved abattoir. TEXT-BOOK.—Drabble, Text-hook of Meat Inspection. Reference books.—Dunlop Young, Bandbook of Meat Inspection, Ostertag ; Edelmann, Monier and Eichorn, Meat Hygiene. VETERINARY SURGERY.

General Veterinary Surgery embraces operative technique and general surgery, and includes demonstrations and exercises in casting, general restraint, anaesthesia, examination of horses for soundness, and clinical instruction. Operative Veterinary Surgery includes clinical veterinary surgery, dentistry and ophthalmology. Each student, under supervision, performs operations and carries out post-operative treatment of surgical cases occurring in the Veterinary Hospital. TEXT-BOOKS.—Hobday, Castration and Ovariotomy; McCann, Surgical Diseases of Dog and Cat; Merillat, Veterinary Surgical Operations; Hobday, Anaesthesia and Narcosis of Animals and Birds; O'Connor, Dollar's Veterinary Surgery; Wooldridge and others, Encyclopaedia of Veterinary Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics, vol. II. VETERINARY OBSTETRICS.

Includes the anatomy and physiology of the generative organs, mating, impregnation, embryology, gestation, symptoms and duration of pregnancy, management of pregnant animals, diseases of pregnancy, normal and abnormal parturition, accidents and diseases following parturition, care of young animals, diseases of young animals, etc. TEXT-BOOKS.—Williams, Diseases of . Genital Organs; Craig, Fleming's Veterinary Obstetrics; Benesch, Veterinary Obstetrics.