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THE VETERINARY ART IN INDIA. 
Brunonian theory, a theory or doctrine which has justly become 
obsolete, after having been keenly tested by the medical world, 
and creating in its day no little excitement and rancorous feeling 
among the professors of the leading medical schools of Europe. 
It will also be found valuable to the junior part of the profes- 
sion — particularly to those who may enter the Indian service — 
not only from the sensible and shrewd observations it contains 
upon the diseases of the horse, modified as they are by an Indian 
climate, but likewise from affording useful information relative to 
the doses of drugs which the animal frame of the horse will bear 
with impunity under the effects of so hot a climate. 
I am, my dear Sir, 
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Introduction. 
“The irritable fibre being the same in all organized nature, dis- 
eases and their remedies will, of course, be the same for all or- 
ganized beings. There will, then, be no distinction between me- 
dicine, farriery, and agriculture; but all these sciences will be 
confounded, and become one, under the general name of Universal 
Physiology .” — Girtanner on the Laws of Irritability . 
When the knowledge of medicine shall have attained that 
perfection which many of her sister sciences have done — when it 
shall be reduced to one general system in universal practice, and 
the medical world, divested of prejudice, shall direct their views 
to nobler and more philanthropic aims than individual interest, 
then the study of any new branch of medicine, and its dissemina- 
tion for general utility, will be a grateful employment. At present, 
every addition to our science is treated as an innovation, and 
instead of being protected and fostered, it has to overcome every 
obstacle which prej udice can oppose. Thus, the veterinary science 
had to encounter many difficulties which arose from bigotry and 
interest. The most respectable and independent part of the me- 
dical profession assisted the rise and progress of a useful science, — 
while the inferior class w ? ere offended, that persons whose practice 
had been principally directed to the brute creation should be dig- 
nified with diplomas, and the appellation of surgeons. 
Veterinary science, properly speaking, is the study of all ani- 
mated nature, — the anatomy and diseases of mankind are alike 
the subject of our investigation, with those of the whole brute cre- 
ation. A veterinary surgeon must attend the lectures of profes- 
sors on human anatomy, physic, surgery, chemistry, and phar- 
macy, independent of the more immediate study of the diseases 
