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STATE OF VETERINARY SCIENCE. 
been heedless as to whether their pupils obtained their informa- 
tion or not ; and while they have left them ignorant of that ex- 
tent of professional knowledge which it was their duty to convey, 
have probably blunted and seared those moral faculties which 
would otherwise have enabled them to become ornaments of 
society. 
It is easy for such men to say the College ought to make this 
and that change ; but before they attempt to reform the course 
of public education, they should, and eventually must, reform the 
state of private professional education, properly training up the 
young practitioner for his professional duties. 
We would call upon and earnestly entreat the guardians of 
those intended for our profession seriously to consider these things, 
in order that they may pursue that course which shall render 
their pupils perfectly qualified to avail themselves of all those 
advantages which a college course of education may afford. 
Having now considered the state of our private education, let 
us look into the system of instruction adopted at the Veterinary 
College. 
Does our College fulfil its duty in the training up of a veteri- 
nary student ? 
A young man entering College, finds that the course of in- 
struction which is directly sanctioned by the governors, and in- 
cluded in the charge of twenty guineas (and which charge ren- 
ders him a perpetual pupil), comprehends four essential objects — 
1st, Attendance on the Professor’s lectures on the anatomy, 
physiology, and pathology of the horse ; added to which (in the 
advertisement ) is cattle. 2d, Hospital practice. 3d, Attend- 
ance in the forge ; and, 4th, Anatomical demonstrations in the 
dissecting-room. He finds also (not included in this sum, but 
sanctioned by the governors), Lectures on Veterinary Surgery, 
&c. by Mr. Sewell, in the Theatre of the College; also, that the 
Board of Examiners especially require that he should be ac- 
quainted with the rudiments of chemistry, materia medica, and 
pharmacy, for the obtaining of which twelve tickets are, twice in 
the season, distributed by Mr. Coleman to Mr. Daniell’s valuable 
lectures on Chemistry, at King’s College, to which that number 
are admitted gratis. It is evident that a part of the pupils, ac- 
cording to this plan, would never receive any chemical instruction, 
were it not for the exceedingly valuable chemical lectures of Mr. 
Morton. It is to be regretted that the governors have not 
allowed that gentleman the use of the theatre ; the lecture, ap- 
paratus, and class — amounting to probably upwards of forty 
pupils — occupying only an area of a few square yards. 
[To be continued.] 
