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and a host of others. In professional intercourse, but one 
excuse can be alleged for the use of such barbarisms, and 
that is, the absence of a complete veterinary nomenclature : 
this, however, it is to be hoped, will not any great while 
longer remain, as it has far too long already been, a bugbear 
to the profession. 
Quitting, with these few remarks, Professor Simonds’s sug- 
gestive reformations in the practising body of the profession, 
we next come to those relating to the “ Institution and the 
Pupil.” The great and crying disadvantage the Royal 
Veterinary College, as a school, has for years, we might say 
from its institution almost, laboured under, is the scanty oppor- 
tunities for practice it affords its pupils. The pupils them- 
selves, not without cause, complain of this ; while, as will be 
seen from the Professor’s “ Address,” the evil is to the full 
admitted within the institution itself. Without wasting 
words on deploring a want acknowledged and felt by all, let 
us come home to the point at once in question — how is 
the evil complained of to be remedied ? The Professor pro- 
poses to follow the example of the Continental, and, we 
believe, of the Edinburgh School, in admitting into the Col- 
lege for advice and treatment, without charge, the horses of 
the poorer classes, the same as is done for human patients in 
our public medical dispensaries, which the pupils, under the 
eyes of the professors, may administer medicine to and ope- 
rate on ; and that cattle also be admitted on the same terms, 
“ but without reference to the position in society of their 
respective owners.” Of course these are to be out-patients: 
not in-patients, unless paid for as such. 
Standing as the Veterinary College does, out of the focus 
of the business of the metropolis, the chief drawback upon an 
influx of patients upon any terms is, and always has been, 
the distance they have to travel to the institution ; a dis- 
tance inconvenient, on occasions, in cases of lameness ; and 
one inadvisable or altogether impossible to be encountered in 
cases of sickness. By way of obviating this inconvenience, 
Professor Simonds suggests the establishment of a “ central 
or west-end branch, — a reception room , so to speak, — for 
