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ledge of veterinary pharmacy that we want, and which alone will 
prepare us for our profession : therefore, we fearlessly add — • 
4. A Professor of general Chemistry, Veterinary Materia Me- 
dica and Pharmacy, Botany, and the first Principles of Agriculture. 
To these must be added an Assistant Demonstrator, who shall be 
Curator of the Museum, &c. 
The Professors of Veterinary Anatomy and Chemistry should be 
permitted to form private classes, to which they may impart other 
and more minute information than the public course of lectures 
could contain. 
If the student possesses such additional and important advan- 
tages, the initiatory fee should be considerably increased, the divi- 
sion of which might be easily arranged. 
The residence of the pupil at the Veterinary College, prior to his 
presenting himself for examination, should be two years, unless he 
had served an apprenticeship to a veterinary surgeon ; in which 
case the term of residence might be diminished in proportion to the 
length of his apprenticeship. 
These two last regulations would work wonders, as to the cha- 
racter and improvement of the pupil. 
More attention should be paid to the shoeing department, and 
every student should be compelled to pare out the feet of and to 
shoe two horses in every week. 
The education of the veterinary surgeon thus extending to new 
patients, with the pathology of which the human surgeon has little 
acquaintance, the present and all future vacancies at the examiners’ 
board should be filled up by veterinary surgeons. 
There are circumstances which come nearly home to him, but to 
which he must not yet allude, which have induced the Editor to 
place himself thus forward in matters that so deeply affect the vete- 
rinary profession ; and he must be permitted to say, that he feels it 
to be the duty of every well-wisher to the profession to come unhe- 
sitatingly forward, and to express his feelings and wishes, in this 
situation of veterinary affairs. We wish to urge nothing unneces- 
sarily intrusive ; but it would be gratifying to those who have 
the direction of our affairs, to find that they were supported by the 
good opinion and good wishes of the profession at large : and, from 
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