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THE VETERINARY PROFESSION. 
The lectures of the demonstrator improve. He becomes better 
acquainted with the duties of his office, and he is a valuable 
officer of the institution. 
But there are other branches of study even more important and 
far more connected with our agricultural interests — the treatment 
of the diseases of cattle and sheep. Are they better attended to ? 
To a certain degree we answer, yes. The lectures of the Pro- 
fessor contain more frequent allusions to them; there are also 
more frequent repetitions of certain favourite points ; but there 
is not the close and direct attention to such a subject which it 
deserves. 
Mr. Stavely has given the students some advantages which 
they possessed not before. He had previously the care of one of 
the great milk establishments at Islington, and he has endea- 
voured to enlarge his cattle practice. He has given permission 
to a certain number of the students to attend at certain hours, 
and witness his practice on the cases of disease that occur. To 
some extent this is advantageous, and the students will get many 
a useful hint with regard to the treatment of large dairies in po- 
pulous towns : but his dairy and his hospital are at a considera- 
ble distance from the College, and an attendance on them inter- 
feres materially with the dissections, and lectures, and clinical 
proceedings at the College, therefore the students are compara- 
tively few who constantly or often visit the Islington dairy. Be- 
sides this, the practice in these large establishments is essentially 
different from that which the pupil will adopt when he goes into 
the country. 
Some good has undoubtedly been derived from Mr. Stavely’s 
exertions ; but not so much as would have resulted from attend- 
ance at a situation nearer the College, and where other avocations 
would not be interfered with. 
Has any progress been made in the study of the diseases of 
sheep ? Letters to the Professor, requesting his advice on certain 
points, have been received ; but here, not having had any personal 
experience, he has been naturally and necessarily at fault. One 
of these cases was recorded in The Veterinarian of the last 
month : we must, however, recur to it again. A flock of sheep had 
long been fed on dry healthy land, and the weather was exceedingly 
