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attachment broken up throughout. The other required but little 
maceration. 
It is most likely that from the first time I saw her little as- 
sistance could have been rendered ; but the various circumstances 
I have mentioned contributed to obscure the truth. The exciting- 
cause can only be guessed at. She was a fine mare, and they 
said a remarkably fast trotter ; and as to the feet, they were in 
figure and strength all that could appear desirable. 
THE PAST AND PRESENT STATE OF VETERINARY 
SCIENCE. 
No. III. 
By Mr. Thomas Walton Mayer, Newcastle-under-Line. 
The progress of veterinary science, though marked and dis- 
tinguished by its anatomical, physiological, and pathological de- 
tails, which were slightly glanced at in the preceding paper, is 
further visible in the improved state of the members of the pro- 
fession, both as regards education and respectability. 
Moreover, the lengthened period of the students’ stay at College, 
the great advantages they now experience there over those who 
studied at an earlier period, together with the persons studying 
being previously better informed, prove that the science must 
have made some progress to need such important additions to the 
former systems adopted, and which have tended much to im- 
prove its character. 
The science has progressed with such rapidity as to require a 
periodical devoted to its interests. Such a periodical has been 
established now for several years, and still exists, through whose 
means the profession has been much advanced, and in whose 
pages much valuable information has been conveyed. It is 
much, however, to be regretted, when we come to consider the 
number of persons* who have graduated as veterinary surgeons, 
that the number of contributors to this valuable veterinary journal 
is so small, and that it is not better supported by those who do 
occasionally contribute to it. If the pages of this periodical are 
distinguished by their gentlemanly tone throughout — if any im- 
provements that are thought will be congenial to the advancement 
of veterinary science are fairly and candidly stated — if arguments 
are used instead of threats and menaces, and the common sense 
* The total number of veterinary surgeons published in the list of 1834 is 
624 and the number of contributors to The Veterinarian at the beginning 
of this year was only 100. 
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