THE EDINBURGH VETERINARY COLLEGE. 441 
tumour about the size of an egg on the arytenoid muscles of the 
larynx. 
*** 1 perceive, in the last number of The VETERINARIAN, one 
of the late pupils of the College finds fault with the instruction, &c. 
at the Institution. I cannot agree with him. When a young man 
has served an apprenticeship of three years to a veterinary sur- 
geon, and attended at the London College two sessions, and studied 
closely, making himself master of anatomy, and not being an ab- 
sentee from the dissecting-room, I will venture to say that he would 
be competent to undertake any operation that the veterinary sur- 
geon is called upon to perform. 
I should like to know what operation it is that is not performed 
on the living horse and dog at the London College : even cattle, 
pigs, &c. were purchased, and operations performed in the presence 
of the pupils. Very great anxiety was manifested on the part of 
the Professors during the last sessions to bring the students up to the 
mark; so much so, that Mr. Spooner lectured every day instead of 
taking his turn as before. If Mr. Spooner or Mr. Simonds was 
five minutes after the time in the lecture-room, it was generally the 
clinical department which was the cause of it, and we were seldom 
losers. I have known Mr. Spooner extend his lectures ten minutes 
past the usual time. I could say much on the improvements which 
have taken place at the London College, the cattle department, &c., 
and in particular in the dissecting-room ; but shall refrain. 
ACCOUNT OF CASES OF DISEASE OCCURRING 
AMONG DOMESTICATED ANIMALS AT THE 
EDINBURGH VETERINARY COLLEGE, 
From the 1st to the 30th of June, inclusive. 
Disease. 
Number 
of Cases. 
Deaths. 
Horses. Neat Cattle. 
Dogs. 
Horses. Neat Cattle. 
Dogs, 
Abscesses in various parts. . . 
8 
1 
3 
. . 
Blain of the Tongue 
1 
• • * 
... ..i 
• • . 
Bursal Enlargements, with 
Lameness 
4 
Calculus (Intestinal) 
1 
1 
i 
1 
Catarrh and Influenza 
14 
1 
1 
• • • 
Castration 
1 
• •• . 
• • • 
Choking 
2 
1 
... 
... 
Colic 
6 
• •• 
Constitutional Debility .... 
1 
Curb, with Lameness 
3 
... 
• •• 
Diabetes 
1 
Distemper 
7 
... 
42 
2 
13 
1 0 
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