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patient as often as possible, consistent with a scrupulous regard to 
the pocket of my employer, so that I may have an opportunity of 
witnessing the various changes which the disease undergoes. In 
the prevailing epizootic I believe that I have traversed as wide a 
circle for the acquirement of knowledge, both for cattle owners and 
myself, as most practitioners who have had an opportunity of treat- 
ing the disease. 
In general, where the patients do not lie at too great a distance, 
1 visit them once a-day, — others as often as time and opportunity 
permit, thereby seeing the various changes as they occur. 
In this disease I am satisfied that, if the veterinary practitioner 
does not visit frequently, pay particular attention when he does 
visit, and is able to vary his treatment according to the changes 
in the disorder, he is only incurring a useless expense to the owner, 
gains no credit to himself, and had better refrain from attending. 
But, on the other hand, no doubt, there are patients taken ill with 
this disease ; and, at the time of the veterinarian being called in, 
the malady has made such progress and undermined the constitu- 
tion so much, that any treatment, be it what it may, is useless, 
and the beast quickly falls a prey to that dire malady. Others, 
through the negligence of the owner, or, perhaps, from a want of 
paying particular attention to the deviation from health to disease, 
are not discovered to be ill until too late, and the aid of the practi- 
tioner is of no use. 
PS. — In this disease I have always found the preparations of 
iodine and its compounds of the most essential service, and am 
positive that I have seen the best possible effects from their use. 
THE VETERINARIAN, DECEMBER I, 1844. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
On the 4th of November the labours of the Veterinary School 
at St. Pancras commenced. 
The Theatre was thronged to a degree which we had never 
before observed. This might be expected, considering the cir- 
cumstances that had taken place at the close of the last session. 
Professor Morton opened the meeting with a long and luminous 
statement of Chemistry generally, and particularly its connexion 
with the veterinary art. 
