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others, it is erroneous. During the time I was connected with the 
institution the lectures did not embrace many important diseases. 
Glanders was not dwelt upon in the theatre ; no lecture on that 
subject was delivered. I repeat this assertion with confidence. 
My position gave me every opportunity to ascertain the fact. I 
was constant in my attendance. I made ample notes. I prepared 
the table for the Professor. I examined the pupils on what he 
taught. I had every facility to learn the truth, and more than 
ordinary reason to remember it. I have consulted my notes, and 
they confirm my belief. The days and dates are recorded, but 
nothing concerning glanders is to be found. Still, not depending 
on my own .impressions, I have made inquiry. Other gentlemen 
were as assiduous as myself. I have asked them to confirm or to 
correct my assertion. They give but one reply : and against such 
evidence, can a single individual be produced capable of saying he 
heard this fatal disorder dwelt upon, while I was either a pupil or 
a teacher at the College 1 
In another sphere, rabies was not alluded to. On this matter 
my evidence is positive. The same reasons which cause me to 
recollect the one circumstance, occasioned me also to remember 
the other. Let these two facts be fairly weighed : if they are 
not thought to be established, it would be only justice to institute 
inquiry. That inquiry I shall be happy to assist. 
In anatomy, as in pathology, the course was wanting. The 
Professor hurried over this portion of his duty. Of the lymphatic 
system he made no mention. The ligaments he did not notice. 
The muscles, arteries, veins, and nerves, he barely touched upon ; 
telling his class to seek in the dissecting-room the information it 
was his special office to afford. Such was the anatomical instruc- 
tion concerning the horse. With regard to other animals, the 
anatomy was unknown, and therefore I need not state it was not 
taught. Something, however, was said about the bones : of the 
value of that something perhaps a judgment may be formed, 
when the skeleton introduced to illustrate the osseous structure of 
the dog actually had the bones incorrectly articulated, and proba- 
bly thus retains them to the present hour. 
Turning from the teachers to the men, I ask, what are their ac- 
quirements, that they would place themselves at the head of the 
profession I What have they done 1 What have they discovered ? 
What have they invented I What have they written I To such 
questions, Mr. Morton may with some credit reply. That gentle- 
man, however, standing as he does alone in merit, is the least in- 
fluential and the worst remunerated of the Professors. The others 
must be silent, or their desert has strangely been concealed. Of 
the value of the general instruction my own case may afford an 
