ON THE DISEASES OF CATTLE, &c. 683 
held such a high position in the profession ; and being thus 
associated, will greatly compensate for my inexperience as a 
lecturer. 
But, Gentlemen, if your studies and efforts at improvement were 
to stop here, little advantage would accrue either to yourselves, your 
employers, or your patients. A knowledge of a disease is said to 
constitute half its cure ; but the other half, that which makes up 
the whole, what must become of it should you be unacquainted 
with the means to combat or to conquer it? Your especial atten- 
tion, therefore, must be given to the instructions imparted to you 
by my highly-valued friend, and now esteemed colleague, Mr. 
Morton. His talents are honestly and anxiously employed for 
your benefit, and to no one of your teachers will you be more in- 
debted for success than to him. By the publication of his “Manual 
of Veterinary Pharmacy,” he has done much credit to himself, and, 
at the same time, rendered most efficient aid to the aspirant for 
professional honours. This book must be made the companion of 
your studies, and every one of you should be in possession of a 
copy of it, for reference at all times. Professor Morton, at the 
commencement of his career, selected the proper road to fame 
and future usefulness, avoiding every devious or doubtful path, 
however alluring it might be; for here he well knew difficulties 
would arise, and to conquer which much time would be required, 
and that at the period too when advance was the most needed. 
But why should 1 deal in metaphor? Rather it is right at once 
to state, that, both in his works as well as in his lectures, his in- 
structions upon the history and the application of the various 
medical agents for the alleviation of disease are extended to all 
domesticated animals. 
I have now shewn the various means which are provided to 
furnish you with instruction upon anatomy, physiology, patho- 
logy, and the application of medicine for the removal of disease 
in our several patients ; but there is one to which I have not yet 
alluded, that is the Veterinary Medical Association. The esta- 
blishment of this institution has, in my opiftion, done as much for 
the advancement of our art as the very foundation of the College 
itself effected. By it we are periodically put in possession of the 
views entertained by practitioners upon the nature and treatment 
of disease, the morbid specimens which are weekly laid upon the 
table at its meetings, accompanied by a narrative of the symp- 
toms and the treatment that has been adopted, fully bear out 
my observation. These histories,— the essays presented for dis- 
cussion,— and the opinions entertained of their merits, are, as most 
of you know, faithfully recorded and published, and the Journal 
of its proceedings I view as reflecting much credit upon the 
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