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THE 
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VETERINARIAN. 
YOL. IX, No. 97.] JANUARY 1836. [New Series, No. 37. 
ANIMAL PATHOLOGY. 
By Mr. You att. 
[Note . — As these lectures wil| differ from the foregoing ones ( iii being, as strictly 
as possible, pathological, the present one is numbered as the commencement of a new 
series. The lecture in the last number was hastily written from memory, the press 
being waiting. This is much more like the one that was delivered ; and, that our 
readers may not complain of the* repetition, we have given them eight supernumerary 
pages.] 
LECTURE I. 
Palsy in the Horse. 
Gentlemen, 
I approach the present course of Lectures with considerable 
diffidence, and with some hesitation. So far as the veterinary 
pupil is concerned, these lectures will be essentially his — they 
will be studiously adapted to his wishes and wants— they will 
treat of the nature, and symptoms, and causes, and treatment, 
usual result of the diseases of all domesticated animals: but I 
do not deny that I have an ulterior object in view. 
It is interesting to Observe how the structure of different organs 
is varied in different animals, according to their locality, their food, 
and their destiny. These varieties afford ample elucidation of the 
wisdom and ! benevolence of the Creator. To the medical student, 
both human and veterinary, such inquiries are useful as well as 
pleasing; foi * 1 they give him more extended and satisfactory views 
of the nature of the different functions and the thousand varie- 
ties of structure and uft^fgemerit— of simplicity, or of compli- 
cated connexion, by means' of Vhich- each animal is admirably 
adapted to enjoy his own peculiar share of good, and also to 
contribute his proportion to the common weal: and therefore 
it is that comparative anatomy and physiology are so sedulously 
taught in the schools of human medicine. 
But who has not felt that there is still something wanting? 
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