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ciples is effected that, in after-life, prove of paramount worth. To 
morbid anatomy some portion of time should also be devoted ; and 
the knackers’ yards would often impart an instructive lesson, and, 
at the same time, enable them to learn to perform many operations, 
and become expert in the use of the surgeon’s knife. But he could 
not too strongly deprecate operations performed on living animals. 
No good resulted from the act, and the public feeling was wisely 
against it. Torturing experiments on animals did but debase the 
man that resorted to them. 
Nor must the principles of the science of chemistry be neglected 
by them, as their application would prevent the practitioner coip- 
mitting many errors in the combination of the curative or thera- 
peutic agents he may employ ; and also enable him to counteract 
the effects of poisons, and to demonstrate their existence after death. 
Nor did he apprehend any thing but good to follow from that 
which seemed to alarm some members of the veterinary profession, 
namely, the dissemination of knowledge by means of agricultural 
schools and colleges. They had his hearty support, since he was 
convinced the principles there taught would cause the veterinary 
surgeon, who was thoroughly acquainted with his profession to be 
more sought after and consulted during the existence of epizootic 
and other diseases, both among horses and cattle, the agriculturist 
finding that he alone is capable of successfully combatting with 
disease who has received an education based on science; and thus 
the farrier and the cowleech would be effectually driven from the 
station which they have so long usurped. Indeed, it would not 
surprise him if each county, in the course of a short time, possessed 
its separate and independent school for the instruction of students 
in agriculture, a division of science that has been too long neglected 
in this country. 
INTERESTING CASE OF LAMENESS FROM DISEASE 
OF THE LIVER. 
By William Smith, M.R.C. V.S., Epsom. 
In that part of Dr. Brauell’s Essay on Podotrocholitis which 
appeared in your last number, he asks, “ does not chronic podo- 
trocholitis occasionally arise from internal causes !” and, reasoning 
analogically, is inclined to answer in the affirmative. To corrobo- 
rate his opinion, he cites several cases of lameness alternating with, 
or produced by, internal disease. Fie omits, however, to mention 
disease of the liver as a cause of lameness, though I believe the 
French as well as English veterinarians have long been in the 
