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attended the clinical classes for two years, have the opportunity 
of studying disease under all its various forms in nearly ten thou- 
sand different animals. 
It is greatly to be regretted that the number of ruminants 
brought to the school for advice, or sent to the hospital for treat- 
ment, is so small in comparison with that of the other domesticated 
animals. We must, however, observe that we have lately re- 
marked a far greater disposition among graziers and breeders to 
employ a veterinary surgeon, instead of sending the sick animal 
to the butcher at once, than there used to be. Some of those who 
have come to us for advice have been enabled, by means of it, to 
save milch cows for which they had given from £18 to £20. We 
have, therefore, good ground for hoping that this class of persons 
will soon be brought to perceive liow greatly it is to their advan- 
tage to profit by the chance thus given them by government of 
having their cattle gratuitously treated in the hospitals of the school 
when suffering under disease of any kind. 
We shall content ourselves now with briefly narrating the most 
important observations that have been made this year in the clini- 
cal department, and purpose elsewhere giving a more detailed 
account of each department separately. 
The diseases of the skin, common to various domesticated 
animals, have been made an object of special study, by the pro- 
fessor charged with the superintendence of the hospitals. He has 
already given to the public some portion of the work that he has 
written on these affections, which, in every point of view, is so 
worthy the attention of the practitioner. He well knew how 
difficult it was, especially in horses and oxen the integuments of 
which are thick and covered with hair, to detect accurately the 
anatomical character of the lesions which serve, in some sort, as a 
basis for the nomenclature of cutaneous diseases. He hopes that the 
time is not far distant when it will no longer be possible to con- 
found these diseases under the general names of mange and dartres , 
which have nothing in common with the latter, excepting the seat 
they occupy in the animal economy. We cannot quit this subject 
without stating that, in treating these diseases, we have obtained 
_ the best possible effects from the use of simple or medicated hot 
and vapour baths. 
A disease similar to acute glanders, but differing essentially in 
its nature, progress, and termination, has been frequently observed 
in horses brought for matinal consultation or sent to the hospital 
for treatment. Its chief seat appears to be in the lips, around the 
nostrils, in the interior of the nasal cavities, and under the epithe- 
lium of the mucus that covers them. The clinical professor deemed 
