(102 PAST AND PRESENT STATE OF VETERINARY SCIENCE. 
you need not. Look among your patients. You may find the 
supposed cause in operation on more than one of them, and you 
have only to watch the result. It is by connecting cause with 
effect in this way that experience becomes valuable. It will 
make you a skillful practitioner, and a skillful reasoner; but 
you must learn how to do this. Without knowing the objects 
and limits of inquiry, you can never learn to make or to direct it. 
You cannot tell what experiments should be made ; nor can 
you, in discussion, apply your experience. You will obtain 
great assistance from “ Brown’s Essay on Cause and Effect.” 
It reveals the objects and limits of inquiry in language beautiful 
and precise beyond description. To me it seems the most mag- 
nificent benefaction science ever received from intellectual exer- 
tion ; and I am sure you will read it with great pleasure. 
THE PAST AND PRESENT STATE OF VETERINARY 
SCIENCE. 
Bty Mr. T. W. Mayer, Newcastle-under-Line. 
[Continued from page 270.] 
In addition to what I have already stated, the student finds 
that there is no arrangement made by the governors with regard 
to lectures on Materia Medica, Pharmacy, & c. He possesses 
this advantage, however, that, without any extra charge, he has 
the power (through the liberality of many eminent professors of 
human medicine) of extending and promoting his acquaintance 
with the science of medicine generally*. 
The student is required to have been entered on the College 
books twelve months previous to his appearing before the board 
of examiners, by whom he may then be duly questioned, and, if 
qualified, licensed to practice the veterinary art. Stripping 
this matter of all superfluity, it distinctly appears that the Col- 
lege education comprises only the four parts detailed in my 
former communication. And will this be thought sufficient for 
the proper and efficient education of a veterinary surgeon ? 
But suppose we allow the College to have all the advantage 
of all the means for diffusing medical instruction, and allowing 
that each lecturer fulfils his part in discussing, methodically and 
scientifically, the several subjects whereof he treats, would it 
* Twelve tickets are given by Mr. Coleman to the anatomical and surgical 
lectures at King’s College; and a certain number to some of the lectures 
delivered in the Borough hospitals. 
