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CATTLE PATHOLOGY. 
as I went in the morning to visit my patient, the animal for 
which I had been prescribing on the preceding evening was 
ofted found hanging up, nearly dressed, or neatly stowed away 
among the vegetables. In the country this cannot be effected, 
and the very interest of the owner of the animal urges him to 
endeavour to save her. Thence the toto cctlo difference in the 
knowledge of cattle pathology to be acquired in the neighbour- 
hood of the metropolis and the heart of the country, and the 
necessity for the instruction that can be derived from one that 
has long resided, and been well taught in the practice of the 
country. 
There has, however, been another hindrance to the acquire- 
ment of a knowledge of the proper treatment of cattle, and of 
horses too, arising from the irregularity with which the lectures 
on the pathology of the horse and of cattle have been delivered. 
Some of our readers who were present at a conversation between 
the Editor and Professor Sewell, at a meeting of one of the com- 
mittees of the Agricultural Society in the course of the last spring, 
will recollect the impossibility of obtaining from that gentleman 
the assertion, that, during the whole of that session, he had de- 
livered five lectures on the diseases of cattle. 
Nearly three months of the present season have passed away, 
and only three lectures altogether have been delivered to the 
class on the diseases of the horse and of cattle. It is true that 
Mr. Sewell has in that period suffered a severe domestic calamity, 
and considerable indisposition. We condole with him, and sin- 
cerely, on both accounts : but it must not be forgotten, that the 
acceptance of a salaried office is accompanied by the obligation 
to provide a substitute when ill health or any other cause pre- 
vents us from personally discharging its duties. That has not 
been done : but the interests of the profession, and especially 
of the students, have been sadly and unjustifiably neglected. 
These things should be duly considered and amended. 
