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foflowing eminent names, viz. Drs. Fordyce, Baillie, 

 Relph, Bebington, and Messrs. Cline, Home, Aber- 

 nethy, and Astley Cooper. 



Tlie subscribers of the veterinary college pay two 

 guineas per annum or twenty guineas for life. 

 Each subscriber is entitled to send, when sick or 

 lame, any number of horses to the veterinary sta- 

 bles, where no charges are made for medicine, at- 

 tendance, or operation : the subscriber merely pays 

 for the keeping and shoeing of his horse. Horses of 

 non-subscribers may be sent to the college for the 

 professors' opinion ; but they are not admitted into 

 the stables. Pupils, on their admission, pay a fee of 

 twenty guineas. The professor delivers lectures on 

 the veterinary art ; and the most eminent medical 

 teachers in London, with great Hberality, allow the 

 students at the veterinary college to attend their 

 lectures on anatomy, physiology, surgery, chemistry, 

 &c. gratis. There are four general examinations in 

 the year. The period requisite for obtaining a 

 knowledge of the veterinary art is regulated by the 

 talents and industry of the students. Most of the 

 cavalry regiments have been supplied with a vete- 

 rinary surgeon from the college. 



3. General Description of the Horse. 



Mankind have generally agreed to place the horse 

 at the head of their domesticated animals ; and in- 

 deed the beauty, strength, speed, boldness, and do- 

 cility of this noble and interesting creature, justly 

 entitle him to this pre-eminence. His reduction 

 into a state of subordination is the greatest acquisi- 

 tion from the animal world which was ever made 

 by the art or industry of man. Repressing his 

 ardour in obedience to the impressions he receives, 

 he flies, or stops, and regulates his motions entirely 

 by the will of his master. He, in some measure, 



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