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Journal has, in one of his lectures on the diseases of the senso- 
rial system, given a somewhat detailed account of it. In his 
work on Cattle, he has also entered somewhat fully into the 
subject; but, strange to say, no other writer has done more than 
glance at it in the most superficial way. It has been often enough 
described as it exists in calves, sheep, and pigs ; but although it 
certainly is comparatively seldom observed in cattle, it does oc- 
sionally attack and destroy the working and the travelling beast, 
and should not be quite overlooked. — Y.] 
THE VETERINARIAN, JANUARY 1, 1841. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
For the fourteenth time we bid our correspondents and our 
readers a happy new year; and that year commences under cir- 
cumstances far more favourable to the onward progress of our art 
than any preceding one has done . In despite of the pledge that 
the education of the pupil should extend to the medical treatment 
of every domesticated animal, more than forty years passed away, 
and the diseases of all, except the horse, were literally unheard of. 
Not a lecture through the whole of Professor Coleman’s annual 
course was devoted to the 1 maladies or the wants of one of them. 
At length Mr. Sewell, before the decease of Mr. Coleman, aware of 
the general and increasing dissatisfaction, and in order the more 
completely to defeat one who was beginning to give certain in- 
structions on the same subjects, proposed to append some lectures 
on the maladies of cattle to others that he was delivering on the 
surgical treatment of the horse. 
A few more years passed on, and he was appointed professor of 
cattle as well as equine pathology, and he received a certain 
salary for the additional labour of these lectures. 
The principle being admitted, that cattle should form a legitimate 
and an important division of the studies of the pupil, it is but right to 
to inquire whether it is fully and fairly carried out. The majority 
of the members of the profession have united for this purpose . In 
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