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student, we beseech him to trust to nothing but hard-going 
laborious cultivated research and study. He cannot be too 
earnestly warned to fit himself for his work by a thorough 
mathematical training, by a sound knowledge of languages, 
by real mental discipline acquired in a working devotion to 
natural science. It is on this basis that he must build his 
clinical aptitude and judgment. The inferority of English 
to German medicine is due to this inferiority of preliminary 
training. We earnestly counsel all students into whose hands 
these pages will fall to ask themselves how far they are fitted 
to undertake the career which they are about to enter. If 
-we could persuade nine-tenths of them to pause yet a year 
or tw r o, and to devote that time to a more thorough mental 
culture and preliminary scientific training, we should render 
an inestimable service to them, and materially improve the 
prospects of British Medicine . — British Medical Journal. 
REGULATIONS RELATING TO THE LANDING AND INSPEC- 
TION OF FOREIGN ANIMALS ARRIVING AT PORTS IN 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
[The following regulations relate to the landing of foreign 
animals under ordinary circumstances:] 
Marking. 
Each kind of foreign animal landed at a landing place for 
slaughter, (with the exception of sheep and swine landed 
within a defined part of the Port of London,) shall be marked 
in the following manner, namely : — 
Cattle. By clipping the hair off the end of the tail, and by 
clipping a broad arrow 7 , about five inches long, on the left 
quarter. 
Sheep and Goats. By clipping a broad arrowy about four 
inches long, on the forehead. 
Swine. By printing a broad arrow, about three inches long, 
on the left side, with the following composition, namely : — 
Rosin, five parts, oil of turpentine, two parts, and red 
ochre one part ; melted, and used warm. 
Detention. 
All foreign animals landed in Great Britain, shall be de- 
tained for at least twelve hours after landing, except as here- 
inafter provided, in some lair or other proper place adjacent 
to the landing-place, for the purpose of being inspected by 
the Veterinary Inspector appointed by the Commissioners of 
Her Majesty’s Customs for that purpose: And every such 
