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Annual Report of the Governors 
Besides tlie instruction imparted to the pupils by the pro- 
fessorial lectures, no opportunity has been omitted of giving 
tutorial explanations of disease, nor of describing the nature of the 
lesions which had been produced in the several morbid specimens 
received at the College during the year. The members of the pro- 
fession practising in different parts of the country have, to as great 
an extent as heretofore, readily afforded supplementiiry aid of this 
description, and the same may be said of many agriculturists and 
owners of cattle. The value of assistance of this kind is great, 
and it is aid which the teachers have always done their best to 
secure. By it they are not only kept informed of special outbreaks 
of disease, but are often enabled to obtain a clue to the local causes 
on which they depend. It is a healthy sign of progress to find 
that many veterinary surgeons of the present day are even more 
desirous to investigate the causes of disease than to confine their 
services to the mere routine of medical treatment. Owners of 
animals are not slow to appreciate the advantages which they thus 
derive, and it has often been a source of much satisfaction to the 
Professors of the College to hear them speak of the value of the 
profession in pointing out how disease is to be prevented, as well 
as in explaining the principles which should obtain in attempting 
its cure. The labours of the Professors will continue to be exerted 
in this direction. 
Among the large number of morbid specimens which have 
reached the College, special mention may be made of some 
remarkable examples of the disease known as Scrofula, affecting 
nearly every organ of the body. With a few exceptions only, 
these cases occurred in cattle used for breeding purposes, and 
mostly, also, among the improved races. 
Attention has previously been directed to the fact of some of 
the families of the most valued breeds being affected with this 
hereditary disease, thereby putting persons on their guard against 
using any animal, which gives the slightest evidence of scrofula, 
for breeding purposes. 
It may be affirmed that these warnings have had a beneficial 
effect,' and hence the necessity of repeating them with such facts 
as the past year's experience has afforded. 
Speaking in general terms of the morbid specimens which have 
come to hand, it may be stated that proof has been again adduced 
that the maladies which pass under the general name of blood- 
diseases are still on the increase among cattle and sheep. Specially 
to be noticed among such diseases is the one commonly known 
as Splenic Apoplexy. Many cases of this disease occurred in 
the winter and spring months, but as the year drew on their 
number greatly increased, until in the summer scarcely a week 
c lapsed without specimens, consisting of the chiefly-affected parts 
