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seventy, besides a few private hours devoted to the practical 

 students upon Materia Medica. Seven of the practical students, 

 having finished the prescribed course and passed the examina- 

 tions, received certificates. The report also expressed the 

 Society's obligations to the medical gentlemen for the trouble 

 they had taken in conducting the examinations, and the interest 

 evinced by them in the progress and prosperity of tlie school. 

 Mr Eobertson Scott of Benholm, after stating his gratification 

 at the proficiency he had witnessed at the examinations this 

 session, said no part of the Society's funds were more profitably 

 employed than the sum devoted to the support of the school, 

 many districts of the country having already experienced the 

 benefit of the information acquired by the students who had 

 there received instruction. The Eeport by the committee this 

 session was printed and circulated among local agricultural 

 societies. 



In noticing the lectures, the Eeport states that, after com- 

 mencing with an outline of anatomy, and a comparative descrip- 

 tion of the bones of the different domestic animals, taking the 

 horse as a standard, and discussing the diseases of these bones 

 as they came successively under examination, Mr Dick pro- 

 ceeded to treat of the muscles, tendons, and ligaments, with 

 their various diseases in different animals. Next in order came 

 the foot, with its diseases, and the various modes of shoeing ; 

 after which followed the organs of respiration, with the diseases 

 affecting these parts, and the specific ailments of the different 

 animals connected therewith, as the murrain in cattle, distemper 

 in dogs, tuberculous disease in swine, &c. The abdominal 

 viscera of the horse, ox, sheep, and dog, and peculiarities of 

 each, were next considered, with the diseases of the intestines, 

 as " hoven stomach " in cattle and sheep, colic, inflammation, &c. 

 Then followed the liver, rot in sheep, the urinary and generative 

 organs, with the operations connected therewith, as castration, 

 spaying, lithotomy, operation for hernia, &c. The skin, its 

 functions and diseases, was next treated of ; then the brain, 

 nerves, and ear, with their disorders ; and lastly, the anatomy 

 and diseases of the eye. From this outline it is sufficiently 

 clear that a very comprehensive course of study had been 

 followed, and that the students had throughout enjoyed the 

 advantage of regular anatomical demonstration, practical opera- 

 tions, and clinical treatment of patients. 



A copy of this report was communicated to the Eoyal Dublin 

 Society in 1831. That Institution had then under consideration 

 the establishment of a veterinary school in Dublin, and applied 

 for information on various details connected with that instituted 

 by this Society. 



