IODINE IN GLANDERS. 
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5. The period of attendance at the College by those who either 
have not served an apprenticeship to a veterinary surgeon, or been 
educated and regularly inured to practice under their own parents 
or relatives, certificates of which shall be produced, extended to 
two years, and, in consideration of the increased means of improve- 
ment which the student will possess, the admission fee, including 
in it the honoraria to all the professors and teachers, doubled. 
6. The medical committee, as at present constituted, to examine 
into the physiological knowledge and general acquirements of the 
candidates for diplomas ; but a practical committee, consisting 
of veterinary surgeons, and of whom the professors form an 
essential part, appointed in order publicly to examine the pupils 
as to their practical knowledge of veterinary surgical anatomy ; 
the nature and the treatment of the diseases of animals ; the 
mode of conducting the various operations, and all the manipu- 
lations of the hospital, the stable, and the forge ; the signa- 
tures of the majority of those who were present at both exa- 
minations being necessary to the obtainment of the diploma. 
We again congratulate our readers on the acquisition of our 
friend Nimrod as a correspondent. His remarks on broken-wind 
we regard as exceedingly valuable ; and he who is, what every 
veterinary surgeon ought to be, a horseman as well as a practi- 
tioner on horses, will duly estimate the pertinent and humorous, 
and sometimes rather close-cutting observations which he makes 
with regard to several points in which we have hitherto been a 
great deal too deficient. 
We tender Mr. Thompson our warmest thanks for this va- 
luable contribution to veterinary pathology. From any and 
every quarter information would be welcome on a subject so 
intimately connected with the interests of our employers and 
the character of our profession, and most welcome from those to 
whom, in the commencement of our career, we were so deeply 
indebted. 
Some few experiments have been made on the power of iodine 
over glanders and farcy, but they have not been instituted on any 
