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propriated exclusively to the study of the diseases of cattle and 
sheep. 
Other governments followed the laudable example of that of 
France ; and with the establishment of these schools was not 
only connected a mitigation of many fatal maladies, but of every 
disease to which cattle and horses were subject. Last of all 
(strange that it should have been so), awakened to a sense of her 
interest, England established a veterinary school, and devoted 
it to the same object as the continental ones — the study of the 
art of preserving the health of all domesticated animals, and princi- 
pally cattle. Unfortunately, the English Veterinary College was 
established at St. Pancras, too near to the metropolis; and, like 
the one at Alfort, in the immediate neighbourhood of Paris, the 
influence of situation prevailed over the most excellent regula- 
tions that could be adopted, and the patients were principally, 
or almost exclusively, horses. In the French school, indeed, 
the instruction continued to extend to the treatment of all 
domesticated animals, although the value and effect of that 
instruction were much diminished by the want of cases illus- 
trative of it; but in the English school, not only were there no 
horned patients, but not a lecture was given on the anatomy or 
diseases of cattle, and the pupils were sent where they would of 
necessity have the ox and the sheep as their patients without the 
slightest knowledge of the maladies of either. 
A veterinary school was, however, established in Edinburgh, 
where the diseases of all domesticated animals were brought 
under the notice of the pupils. The University College in the 
metropolis of the south likewise admitted, for a short time, a 
veterinary school under its roof, embracing every object of the ve- 
terinarian’s care; and a few short weeks ago, the governors of the 
St. Pancras School have acknowledged the anatomy, physiology, 
and pathology of cattle and sheep, and all domesticated animals, 
to be legitimate objects of the study of their pupils, and have 
appointed a distinct Professor with reference to this most import- 
ant object. We exult in the announcement of this. We already 
anticipate its glorious results — not, perhaps, to be immediately 
and fully worked out — but the first step is taken, and there is 
no power that can long arrest the improvement of our art. 
