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CATTLE PATHOLOGY. 
— hoove — poisons — fardel-bound — -inflammation of the liver — 
jaundice — inflammation of the bowels — wood-evil — moor ill — 
diarrhoea — dysentery — colic — strangulation — introsusception — 
worms — dropsy — rupture — red-water — black-water — inflamma- 
tion of the kidneys — inflammation of the bladder — rupture of ditto 
— swellings of the joints — ulcers of the joints — opened joints — 
sprains — diseases of the feet — foul in the feet — hidebound — 
mange — leprosy, and all the long list of diseases of the youngster. 
With all of these the veterinary surgeon will occasionally have 
to grapple. He must recognize them in an instant — he must 
be conscious of their changes and connexions — he must be aware 
of the proper mode of treatment, so essentially different from that 
of the horse — the medicines so different — so contrary in their 
effects; and all this with regard to one class of patients, while 
others of numerous kinds are claiming his attention and his care. 
Are, in good truth, all these to be dispatched in five, or seven, 
or seventy lectures ? May these lectures be delivered by tits 
and starts? Will slight glances at them, when treating of other 
subjects, suffice ? It is ridiculous for a moment to think so. 
There ought to be forthwith a distinct lecturer on the diseases of 
the animals which constitute so great a portion of the farmer’s 
care and wealth. 
What time so proper as the present? The head-professor 
being for awhile removed, the hands of the assistant-professor 
are more than full ; and this most important branch of veterinary 
instruction is altogether lost to the pupil, with the exception, 
indeed, of what may be gleaned at the dairy at Islington, and 
which includes not, and never can include, a twentieth part of 
what he ought to know of the long list of diseases just given. 
Is there no one in the neighbourhood of the metropolis or elsewhere 
who might be selected to Jill this chasm , so long and so injuriously 
unoccupied ( l Is the whole of this session to be utterly thrown 
away ? 
Once more we appeal to the members of our own profession — 
once more we appeal to the Agricultural Society, and to agricul- 
turists every where. Give to the pupil an opportunity of acquir- 
ing that information so useful to him and to you. A lengthened 
course of instruction, and by a competent teacher, will alone ac- 
complish this. The horse owes much to the Veterinary College, 
and the knowledge of his diseases, and their mode of treatment, 
is now daily improving. So let it be with cattle. There is more 
at stake than with the horse ; and it will depend on you, whether 
an improvement in the treatment of the diseases under which they 
labour shall be rapid and effectual. 
Y. 
