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two teachers placed at the head of it, — an anatomical and a patho- 
logical professor, or a third added, if necessary, to take the entire 
management of the breeding, rearing, and feeding department, — 
how beautifully and effectually might the teacher of anatomy and 
physiology enforce his opinions with the dead subject before him, 
and living models at hand to illustrate his peculiar views, or the 
adaptations of different animals to breed, to milk, or to fatten, &c. ! 
— what an enlarged field would he have before him to prove the 
truth of his doctrines, and to put them in a light that could scarcely 
be mistaken or controverted : substituting living and tangible proofs 
for what might possibly be otherwise the distemperature of an 
enthusiastic imagination. 
Then what a scope for the pathological professor, supposing 
(that in addition to the cases which would most probably occur on 
the farm itself) a fund were set apart for the purchasing of diseased 
animals of every kind, or if the establishment were considered as 
a kind of hospital to which diseased animals might be sent from 
every neighbouring district. How might he seize on every fresh 
case as the subject of his lecture, and what a fund of valuable in- 
formation might be obtained from a faithful and careful record of 
different diseases, and a narration of the symptoms, the treatment, 
and the effect produced under every possible circumstance. How 
valuable a chance, if he were allowed in all cases to follow the 
medical treatment to the utmost extent on the patients who were, 
bond fide, the property of the establishment; or to kill them under 
any stage of the disease, and ascertain by direct proof the difference 
and the extent of the lesions which the several stages would 
present ! 
Then, under such circumstances, look at the advantages to the 
student. We will suppose that if it were incumbent upon him 
to spend two years at least at this establishment before he could 
be allowed to enter the Veterinary College, or, at any rate, that he 
must spend this time there before he could obtain a diploma from 
the old Veterinary College, and that a diploma was as necessary 
from the one as the other — the chances are, that in one branch 
alone — parturition, — he would see more cases during this time than 
in ten years of actual practice, after the present system of tuition. 
What a lamentable fact it is, that scores of veterinary surgeons 
have been sent out into the world whose first case of this kind 
they ever saw was one of great difficulty, and where they were 
expected to succeed in the delivery of the animal after all ordinary 
assistance had failed. 
It should also be a part of the duty of the student — and strictly 
enforced — to keep an account of every remarkable case of disease, 
and at least of two or three of every kind, whether particularly 
remarkable or not — considering them under all their different stages, 
