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PLAN OF A SCHOOL OF ANIMAL ANATOMY. 
The superior of these “ ligamentous bands” has also long been 
described by Professor Dick as being liable to sprain from various 
causes; attendant upon which, in addition to other symptoms dis- 
tinctly characterising it, there is, in most cases, a distention of the 
bursa with which the “ ligamentous band is connected.” This 
distention being observable on each side of the limb above the 
knee, he calls it thoroughpin at the knee. 
There are other arrangements of “ ligamentous bands” to be found 
in the fore leg, descriptions of which we shall vainly seek for in 
works on veterinary anatomy, and the diseases of which we shall 
as vainly seek in works on veterinary pathology and surgery ; yet, 
although such descriptions are wanting, I cannot conceive that either 
the one or the other have “ been hitherto unobserved but the 
“ structures” Mr. Mayhew has described as existing near the shoulder 
and knee are so frequently diseased, that I do indeed wonder 
instead of “ hazarding” assertions respecting them, he has “ nothing 
positive to advance.” But if the “ structures” themselves are so 
recently known to him, they surely have not “ been hitherto un- 
observed ” by other teachers at the London Veterinary College ; 
yet, as the obvious inference is the contrary, I feel curious to 
know how the various symptoms indicating lameness in the fore 
leg have been “ hitherto” accounted for, if these structures in which 
they exist have indeed “ been hitherto unobserved.” 
Edinburgh Veterinary College, 
11 April, 1846. 
A PLAN FOR ESTABLISHING A SCHOOL OF ANIMAL 
ANATOMY OF LONDON, 
TO PROVIDE PROPER ACCOMMODATION, IN THE CHARACTER OF A THEATRE, 
FOR THE EXAMINATION OF HORSES AND CATTLE HAVING DIED FROM 
PHYSIOLOGICAL DISEASE OR OTHER CAUSES. 
The purpose would be answered by the erection of a substantial 
building of wood, inclosing a spacious platform capable of suspend- 
ing three horses at one time, with sufficient frames, joists, ropes, 
pullies, and apparatus for exhibiting animals in every posture, 
supplied with wells, vessels, and depositories for sections, organs, 
and specimens, with the most perfect drainage. 
The interior to be fitted with circular or octagonal seats for spec- 
tators not engaged in dissection, with the most ample mechanical 
contrivances for the accommodation of students and artists em- 
ployed in tracing and delineating disease and its diagnosis, and for 
taking notes of examinations. 
