266 REVIEW — ON THE STUDY OF SURGERY, 
ance of physiology as a branch of medical science. Great as is 
its real importance, how indispensable it is that it should occupy 
a most important position in the educational courses of veteri- 
nary schools! We are far from being desirous of entering upon 
angry polemics; for, with Bishop Hall, we are prepared to 
exclaim that “We never loved those salamanders who are 
never well but when they are in the fire of contention.” Never- 
theless, when we know that at our own veterinary school the 
anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the horse (medicine, sur- 
gery, and pathological anatomy included), are professedly 
taught in a single winter course, we cannot refrain from ex- 
pressing a hope that, at an early period, it will be seen fit to 
devote to each of these important branches of science a much 
wider share of attention than a single professor in a single 
course, however talented and industrious, can possibly devote 
to them collectively. 
That our sentiments accord with those of the author of the 
pamphlet under review may partly have been learned from the 
preceding extract ; and that he, with ourselves, regards obser- 
vation as indispensable to the successful study of disease, may 
be inferred from the following quotation : — 
“ The increased attention that has of late years been devoted 
to clinical observation has, in a special manner, tended to ad- 
vance the study of surgical pathology. Surgery, more than any 
other department of the healing art, is of a practical and positive 
character. The more careful and extended manner, therefore, in 
which bed-side observation has been conducted, the number of 
facts that have thus been accumulated, and the careful deduc- 
tions that have been made from them, have been found of ines- 
timable advantage to the progress of surgical science, and may 
certainly be looked upon as one great cause of its advance.” 
Our object being to glean from Mr. Erichsen’s address only 
those truths which, from their general character, are applicable 
to veterinary as to human surgery, we avoid commenting upon 
many passages contained in it, even though they be replete 
with sound advice, and afford undoubted evidence of being the 
products of a superior mind, determined to promote the interests 
of the noble profession of surgery, and to maintain the repute of 
the Surgical Chair of University College, as established by its 
late occupants, Charles Bell, Samuel Cooper, Liston, Lyne, and 
