Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine - Chiron Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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OUR HERITAGE Veterinary Medicine at the Ohio State Uni- versity was conceived on January 6, 1871. At this time, the Board of Trustees of The Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College initiated a course of study in Veterinary Medicine within the newly created Department of Zoology and Veterinary Science. Instruction pertaining to animal diseases and treatment was not limited to this department, since the Department of Agriculture and Botany also offered courses in Veterinary Medicine. Veterinary Medicine was officially and totally transferred to the School of Agriculture in 1876. The catalogue for 1876 had Veterinary Medicine listed under the Depart- ment of Agriculture, Botany, and Veterinary Science Professor Albert H. Tuttle, who chaired the Department of Zoology and Veterinary Science, and Dr. Norton S. Townshend, the first professor in the Department of Agriculture, Botany, and Veterinary Science, both recognized the urgent need for instruction in Veterinary Medicine in the State of Ohio. They felt that losses sustained from disease were the greatest restricting factor in prohtable animal industry and both diligently offered instruction in animal health with the hope that students could return to their farms better prepared to lessen disease losses. The Board of Trustees in 1884, due to the persistant reccommendations of Dr. Townshend and Professor Tuttle, established a separate and distinct professorship in Veterinary Medicine, and appointed Dr. H. J. Detmers to this newly created position. The following year the Board created the School of Veterinary Medicine as 'a separate entity, and in 1889 appointed Dr. Detmers as Chief of the School of Veterinary Medicine. Soon after Dr. Detmers arrived to assume his new position, he projected the first four year course in Veterinary Medicine. This course was rejected because it was so far in advance of the times educationally, that it was considered too revolutionary and premature. He did, how- ever, institute courses of study in Helminthology and Bacteriology, the latter being the first such course in a Veterinary curricula in America. Veterinary Dissecting Laboratory, 1886. He also established the first Ambulatory Clinic Service in the school's history. Dr. Detmers re- quired an acceptable thesis on a special study from each candidate as a requisite for grad- uation. During Dr. Detmers's tenure as Chief'l of the School of Veterinary Medicine, twenty individuals received the Degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. Classroom instruction, dissection, and labora- tory work by Professor Tuttle and Dr. Town- shend were carried on in University Hall, as was all instruction of courses of the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College. Not until 1886, did the School of Veterinary Medicine have a structure of its own. At this time, a 20 x 20 foot, one story brick building was constructed for dissecting purposes at a cost of 541725.