Summary of Dr Crisp's Carmichael essay on medical reform and medical education : suggestions and conclusions as directed by Mr Carmichael under the three heads.

  • Crisp, Edwards, 1806-1882.
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[1870]
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    appendix. The state or the veterinary profession in the united kingdom. This question is so intimately connected with everything that concerns the progress of medical science and the good of the profession, as I hope to shew hereafter, that I make no apology for introducing it as an Appendix to this essay. We can scarcely be said to have any efficient mode of instruc- tion for our Veterinary students in the United Kingdom. Up to a late period those who examined them were members of the medical profession, and at the present time, to use the language of one of the few reformers among the Veterinarians, Mr. Fenwick, (“ Veterinarian,” July, 1829^, “ A joint-stock company where gerltlemen send their horses at the cheapest rate, and where human surgeons, iafidrant of the anatomy and diseases of horses, are the examiners.” For thirty-seven years, only one member of the Veterinary Profession was allowed to be on the examining Board. The College receives £200 a-year from the Royal Agricultural Society, the members of which society and other subscribers have the liberty of sending diseased animals free of cost. There is one advantage this'College has over our Medical Corporations, viz, that the representative sWmm is fully adopted; ladies and members of Parliament being allowed £o vote by proxy, a kind of constituency not becoming a scientific body* I an\unwilling to make an ill-natured remark, but it must be apparent to all that, like many of our Medical Corporations this body is very far behind similar institutions on the Continent — that the system of education and instruction is very inefficient. A new Charter is now prayed for, one object of which is to prevent those calling themselves Veterinary Surgeons who are not members of the College. If this Charter is granted it will only add another piece to the patchwork, and effect but little scientific good. The members of this College are about 1,000 ; a very inadequate number for the supply of the United Kingdom, as was fully shewn during the late outbreak of Cattle Plague. /In Scotland, the Vete- rinary College, under the Highland Society, is/fn a more unsatisfactory state; and in Ireland there is no Veterinary 1nstruction of any kind. A friend in Dublin tells me “ that Mr. Peele wa/the\ast Veterinary Professor in Ireland, 1827.” . ' The Government should a\ once establish a Veterinary College in Dublin upon a liberal basis, with an aunuaF grant of money to make the institution entirely independent of annualXsmbscribers. The same should be done in England and Scotland; there i^no other means of making this body efficient and respectable. A College so instnaited might, as in France, Austria, and Germany, go hand-in-hand/with our hiedical and surgical institutions, and thus effect great good. / THE STATE OF THE VETERINARY PROFESSION IN FRANCE. I will now place before the reader, by way of contrast, the state of the Veterinary profession in France. Here, there are three Veterinary Colleges, as there are three schools of Human medicine—Alfort, founded 1765 ; Lyons,