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I am quite ready to admit that the clinical professors take 
every trouble to call the attention of the students to interest- 
ing cases; but I would ask, how is it possible for so large a 
class to follow them through the stables and get near enough 
to hear their remarks ? The necessity of all operations being 
brought under our immediate notice must be evident to every 
one, and, as “ A Student 55 observes, an operating theatre is 
most urgently needed. 
I also quite coincide with his remarks as to the preliminary 
examinations, viz. that every student should have the same 
questions put to him. 
There are many things in the present system which require 
alteration, and the sooner it is made the better. I feel sure 
that if the matter were properly represented to the authorities 
—the Governors of the College — they would at once see the 
necessity for the changes which have been spoken of, holding, 
as they do, our welfare in their hands. 
Pathological Contributions. 
CATTLE PLAGUE. 
At the close of the year Belgian Luxembourg was be- 
lieved to be free from the cattle plague, the disease having 
been reported as effectually stamped out within a few weeks 
of its introduction from France. The risk, however, of its 
entrance into the province of Hainault in consequence of 
the progress of the German army in the Nord department 
of France, led the Belgian Government to despatch troops to 
the frontier to assist the customs’ officers in preventing the 
fraudulent attempts which were being made to bring cattle 
over it. For this purpose Chimay, Beaumont, Erquelinnes, 
Dour, Peruwelz, and Tournai, were occupied by military, 
and the Government also ordered a census of the cattle 
to be taken in the several communes of the arrondissement 
of Tuin. On January 3rd a fresh case of the disease was 
reported at Corbion, near to Bouillon, and great fear was en- 
tertained that the plague might show itself at Yirton and in 
the commune of Yillers-devant-Orval in consequence of its 
existence in the contiguous French villages of Lafosse and 
Maigny. The latest intelligence from Belgium shows the 
plague to be on the increase in the province of Luxembourg 
and among other villages at Halanzy near to Longwy. 
Besides this reintroduction of the cattle plague into Belgium, 
and the further spread of the disease in the northern parts of 
