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the educational part belongs? The question may prove a 
home-thrust, but it is one that should be fairly met. The 
study of medicine may be said to be life-long, and never 
completely attained, since it involves so much thought and 
reflection, and an intimacy with so many of the physical 
sciences. By the study of these, “ not only is the mind ex- 
ercised in the careful collection and arrangement of numerous 
facts which bear some mutual relation to each other, and 
enabled to appreciate their relative importance in its attempts 
to reduce them all to the simplest expression, but it is 
taught to search after and to grasp the most minute and 
delicate changes, without losing sight of or undervaluing those 
general and common-place observations which present them- 
selves to the uneducated.” 
We are not of opinion that Mr. Morton exhausted his 
subject in the additions proposed by him. An acquaintance 
with the laws of hygiene , involving as they do some know- 
ledge of geology, meteorology and electricity, is required by 
the practitioner of veterinary medicine. Then there is the 
regulation of food, or dietetics, both in health and disease. 
Nor should he be ignorant of the conditional state of the 
atmosphere resulting from a want of drainage, or of venti- 
lation ; these being all external agents, so to speak, operating 
on the organism, and inducing in it certain changes favour- 
able or otherwise. Perhaps, too, natural history, so far as it 
is necessary, and the elements of natural philosophy, should 
be taught in our schools ; although, probably, the time is not 
yet come for the introduction of these ; but come it will if 
we are to continue to progress. 
In addition to all this, it may hereafter be desirable to in- 
troduce the collegiate system into Alma Mater; the students 
generally living within the institution, so that the " Rules and 
Regulations” devised for their benefit may be enforced, and 
a regular and systematic education carried out. As it is at 
present, with many, much loss of time is sustained, not to say 
anything of the absense of all control, and the evil that arises 
from the allurements and temptations to which they are ex- 
posed. One thing more. We would have the examinations 
