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PATHOLOGY OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 
they are about four years old, when they are driven into the bogs 
and captured. They are hardy, active, and sure-footed. 
In the seventh number Mr. Low returns to the sheep, and some 
splendid portraits of the old Norfolk, and the old Wiltshire breeds 
are given. To these follow the present Dorset, and, by way of 
contrast, the Merino. The work improves as it progresses, and is 
an ornament to the agricultural spirit of the present day. 
Pathology, special or descriptive, of the principal Domestic Ani- 
mals. By L. Y. Delw ART, Professor at the Veterinary School 
at Brussels. 
It used to be considered an essential part of the duty of a medi- 
cal professor to compose for the use of his class, and of the medical 
public generally, a course, or more extended treatise on the divi- 
sion of instruction allotted to him, or on some particular portion of 
it. Such was the origin of many an inestimable work. Urged by 
a sense of duty, and flattered by the approbation of their class, or 
of the profession generally, Cooper and Travers, Lawrence and 
Elliotson, and Turner and Quain composed those noble works 
which will ever do honour to their memories. 
In the schools of human and veterinary medicine abroad the 
same practice prevails. The professor of each school, as a proof to 
the public that he is capable of the task which he has undertaken, 
as well as urged by a feeling of attachment and gratitude towards 
his class, is anxious to give to his pupils a valuable guide in the 
pursuit of their studies, as well as a proof how much he is inte- 
rested in their improvement and the honour of our profession. Thus 
a Bourgelat, a Gohier, a Chabert, a Huzard, contributed to the re- 
putation of the French School in its earlier days; and, in later 
times, a Girard, a Delafond, a Vatel, a Renault, a Rigot, a Gro- 
gnier, a Moiroud, a Dupuy, a Bernard, a Bouley, and a Gelle, have 
contributed to the improvement of the pupils, and the honour of 
the French veterinary profession. 
The professors of the English school have yet been few in num- 
ber ; but they have felt the obligation under which they lay, and we 
have the short and valuable papers of Moorcroft, the elaborate work 
of Coleman on “ The Foot,” and his “Observations on the Effects 
and Treatment of Wounds of Joints &c. and, at a later period, the 
valuable works of Morton on Veterinary Pharmacy. Another lec- 
turer has attempted to tread in the same path — but let him pass ! 
