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ON PUERPERAL FEVER. 
It greatly errs if it thinks that the Professor has either time or 
ability for such a task. I would earnestly entreat the Society, that 
some one should be appointed to listen to his lectures on cattle 
pathology, when they will soon be convinced that their £200 a 
year is paid for next to nothing, unless it be to gull the students. 
I also take it in another light, that, under his superintendence 
the College will never be raised in public estimation, nor will the 
people be induced to send cattle to the College for treatment, if there 
is not a person capable of treating their diseases. I would ask 
how many of those that were brought to the College last season 
were cured ! I answer, not one : and even those that were sent to 
the College were actually bought to practise on. 
Again, there ought to be a few lectures expressly on medical 
jurisprudence; but nothing of the sort ever takes place, except a 
passing notice of what is unsoundness. 
This, Mr. Editor, is a painful subject. I know you hate it; yet 
I am, like yourself, convinced that a reform must take place, and 
the sooner it is effected the better. If the College and the Go- 
vernors do not think proper to make that alteration in it that is re- 
quisite at the present time, I would throw out the hint of rousing 
the public voice for the establishing of another college, upon a 
broad and liberal basis, which shall fulfill the noble object which 
this was intended to accomplish, and where the professors shall be 
appointed according to their merit. Why delay the thing I for 1 am 
sure this College has been tried long enough; and that if does not 
soon reform, it never will. I am also sure that if another was estab- 
lished, and that the professors were more numerous and efficient 
than some in the present one, it would meet with the approbation 
and the sanction of the public, the profession, and students. 
ON PUERPERAL FEVER. 
By Mr. SNEWING, VS., Rugby . 
That peculiar, interesting, dire, and destructive disease which 
affects cows after delivery, designated Puerperal Fever, I perceive 
has been again discussed in the arena of science by some of the 
members of our Association, and it remains for them and the pro- 
fession at large to finish the great and noble task which has been 
begun by the masterly hand of a FRIEND. 
I imagine that, ere long, experience and observation will bring the 
majority of the profession to coincide with his opinion in viewing 
it as a disease of the nervous system. We may, and we shall for 
