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the subjects on which I have spoken, with much care ; and having 
had considerable opportunities of forming sound opinions, I shall 
he very glad to have a free expression of opinion from you all, and 
shall not be at all offended should your views differ very widely 
from mine. 
In the discussion which followed, 
Mr. Greaves says that he agreed with Mr. Storrar in giving the 
student a good education until he arrives at the age of seventeen ; 
he must then be apprenticed to a veterinary surgeon, and remain 
with him for twelve months, go one session to college, see two more 
years’ practice, and then again to college to finish. 
Mr. P. Taylor considers it a sine qua non that veterinary 
surgeons in selecting pupils should have them of good education 
and gentlemanly manners, but disagrees with his friend Mr. Greaves 
that the pupil should fulfil his three years’ term of apprenticeship 
before going to college at all. 
Mr. MacLean thinks it unnecessary for the pupil to remain three 
years making up physic ; but if all veterinary surgeons took the 
pains Mr. Greaves did, the time would be well spent : the contrary 
is most frequently the case. 
Mr. Morgan proposes a mixture of study and practice ; a long 
apprenticeship, and three or four sessions at college, or a year for 
each branch of study. 
Mr. T . Taylor had seen an il Ornamental,” or college-trained 
veterinary surgeon sit down to examine a horse’s hocks. 
Mr. Hayes has no doubt that a man who has not previously 
served an apprenticeship can neither obtain distinction nor gain in 
his profession, never afterwards being able to acquire the art of 
making or giving a ball, or being. able to bleed, blister or bandage 
with celerity and precision. 
After remarks from Messrs. Reynolds, Woods, Wilson, Roberts, 
&c., who all agreed as to the advisability, and indeed necessity, of a 
sound scholastic and practical education, the discussion closed with 
a vote of thanks, proposed by Mr. Morgan, to the President, and 
seconded by Mr. Greaves, which was carried, for his interesting 
address. 
The President then called on Mr. Greaves to read his Paper on 
Paralysis in the Horse. 
Mr. President and Gentlemen, — The subject to which I 
propose to call your attention to-night, is a very important one. 
I have no fresh discovery to disclose, nor have I been fortunate 
enough to hit upon a mode of treatment by which the disease may 
be more successfully dealt with than it has been hitherto ; but 
by inviting you to express the results of your experience I may help 
to give the subject new life and a fresh impetus. 
Percivall defines paralysis to be “a loss or diminution of the 
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