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THE EDINBURGH VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
[We feel ourselves bound to insert the following account of the 
Edinburgh Veterinary School, and to give it in Professor Dick’s 
own words. Our Journal will be open to both parties, and 
good and honourable feeling, we trust, will influence each.] 
My dear Sirs, — As Professor Spooner has thought, proper to state 
in writing that my pupils must labour under very serious defects, 
and principally the want of practical knowledge, in consequence of 
my having accommodation for ten horses only, I feel myself called 
on to shew the real extent of practice my pupils have the oppor- 
tunity of seeing. I, therefore, have drawn up the following ab- 
stract of the cases that have occurred during the last month, from 
the 1st to the 31st inclusive, and, although some of the cases were 
in private stables, they were all patients to my pupils. 
In doing this I, at the same time, call on Professor Spooner to 
give a similar abstract of the cases that have occurred at the Royal 
Veterinary College during the same period, which he has quite in 
his power, as there is a record kept of all the cases which occur 
there. When he has done this, the public will be able to judge 
whether my pupils or his have the best opportunities of acquiring 
a practical knowledge of their profession. 
I am, my dear Sirs, 
Your’s truly, 
William Dick. 
I. — Horses. 
No. of Cases. Deaths. 
Megrims . . . . 1 
Influenza and Catarrh . . . .30 
Strangles . . . . 2 
Bronchitis, Pneumonia, and Pleurisy . . 26 2 
Broken Wind, combined with inflammatory Dis- 
ease of the Air-passage . . .5 
Spasm of the Diaphragm . . 1 
Haemoptysis .... .1 
Indigestion . . . 2 
Colic ..... .10 
Enteritis . . . . ..63 
Diarrhoea . . . . .1 
Vomition . . . . 1 
Tympanitis , . . . .31 
Worms . . . . .5 
Injuries and Diseases of Eyes . 4 
Skin Diseases . . . . .7 
Laminitis . . . . 3 
