ON INSTRUCTION IN CATTLE PATHOLOGY. 747 
but respectful mode of action could be of more service to promote 
the advancement of veterinary science. 
Ought we quietly to submit to have such a task imposed upon 
a gentleman, whom we must all necessarily respect and esteem, so 
laborious that no individual, however diversified his talents or 
deep and extensive his acquirements in pathological knowledge, can 
possibly perform 1 
Why the Governors of the College should hesitate to appoint a 
clinical lecturer in the cattle department I cannot devise ; but it 
would seem that these gentlemen have two obstacles to contend 
with. One may be, that they imagine there is no member of the 
profession who has been long accustomed to a successful mode of 
cattle practice worthy of the important trust that must devolve 
upon him, and whose integrity could be depended upon not to 
betray the confidence which must necessarily be reposed on his 
judgment; or that the funds of the College are too low to admit of 
a salary being given to a lecturer on the diseases of neat cattle and 
other domesticated animals. 
If the latter should be the case, we may suppose that the appoint- 
ment does indeed become a matter of expediency, as it would 
materially tend to assist the present worthy Professors in establish- 
ing a cattle practice, and also enable the College to assume its pro- 
per character and bearing among the veterinary schools all over the 
world. If, also, a person may be allowed to form an opinion from 
the benefits which the country practitioner derives from cattle prac- 
tice, there can be no valid reason to doubt, that, after a short time, 
the returns resulting from a similar one at the College would be 
more than equivalent to defray the additional expenditure which 
must be incurred. 
In the present dearth of knowledge as to the diseases of neat 
cattle and other domesticated animals, it might be difficult to find a 
veterinarian fully competent to discharge all the important duties of a 
lecturer ; but I am fully persuaded that there would not be much 
difficulty in meeting with one who has had considerable experience 
in these branches of veterinary science, and whose practical know- 
ledge would not only enable him both to recognize and successfully 
treat disease, but also to give clinical instruction ; and thus, with 
requisite assiduity and proper mental energy, he would soon be 
enabled to arrange, from an accumulation of practical facts, a useful 
and satisfactory course of pathological lectures. If the appointment 
of a third professor should be determined on and an inquiry insti- 
tuted, I imagine that it is possible some liberal-minded member of 
the profession might be induced to relinquish private practice, and 
in some measure, even from motives of philanthropy, accept of the 
highly important but unenviable situation. 
