THE EFFICACY OF DEEP CAUTERY LESIONS. 639 
the outer side of the hock is a disease of very frequent occurrence, 
and often a source of lameness without any corresponding disease 
of the inner side of the same hock ; and further, by acting promptly 
on this knowledge, I have occasionally enjoyed the triumph of 
effecting cures by a bold exercise of the cautery on the outer side 
of the hock, after the inner side had been fired without the slightest 
benefit. Examples of this have especially occurred in my bro- 
ther’s operations among hunters, the ligaments outside the hock- 
joint in connexion with the cuboid and metatarsal bones being 
very susceptible of injury in violent and cramp jumps under hard 
riders and heavy weights. 
[To be continued.] 
THE VETERINARIAN, NOVEMBER 1, 1846. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
To the end that the arts and sciences may progressively ad- 
vance, it becomes not only necessary that the actual professors and 
practitioners of them should severally exert themselves in their 
cultivation and improvement, but that especial care should be 
taken that the rising generation — the young men who in due time 
are to step into the shoes of the present professors and practitioners 
— should at their entry into professional life have received that 
higher degree of qualification which fits them for commencing 
their career at somewhere about the advanced stage of know- 
ledge at which their predecessors left off practice, or at least 
improvement. Were half-a-dozen explorers of some unknown 
country all to commence their travels in succession from the same 
spot, they could not effect the same advances as they would have 
done had each traveller set out from the point at which his pre- 
decessor had closed his researches. 
Those who framed the first code of rules and regulations for the 
Veterinary College, fearing lest they might deter persons from 
becoming candidates for a profession in those days any thing but 
popular among gentlefolks, restricted the qualification for admis- 
