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cepted an appointment in the East India Company’s service, and 
went abroad, and conducted, in a way most honourable to himself, 
and advantageous to them, some of the studs of horses in that 
country. Mr. Coleman remained at the College, and superintended 
the instruction delivered at the institution, very nearly forty-five 
years. 
Many hundreds of pupils have been educated in this seminary, 
and have been scattered over every part of the British dominions 
at home and abroad. A great many of them, engaging in private 
practice, have done much to establish in the country a favourable 
opinion of the profession. Some have been appointed to situations 
of considerable magnitude and confidence, while others have been 
commissioned officers in the British cavalry, the East India Com- 
pany’s service, and in all our dependencies. While the veterinary 
science has, by these means, been much extended, it is highly 
gratifying to witness the spirit of humanity which is pervading the 
whole profession. The inhabitants of Britain are relinquishing 
the cruelties of their early progenitors, who used to fire their horses 
as well as themselves, and which is still practised in half-civilized 
countries. Firing is still practised in many parts of England, par- 
ticularly in the north ; but he was happy to say that it is rapidly 
decreasing. He did not say that it was a barbarous practice when 
applied in cases which plainly and palpably indicated its necessity; 
but the misapplication of it is less frequent, though he is certain it is 
much misapplied in a great majority of cases, aggravating instead 
of curing diseases which milder treatment would have subdued. 
Many improvements have been introduced into veterinary prac- 
tice since this school was established. Mr. Dean, late of Windsor, 
was the first who performed the operation of oesophagotomy. 
Then followed tracheotomy — subcutaneous periosteotomy — neu- 
rotomy — the division of the flexor tendons of the leg — the tapping 
in hydrothorax — the extraction of vesicular calculi — and the cure 
for glanders; these shew the advance and the triumph of the 
veterinary art. 
The Professor here produced some splendid specimens of knuck- 
ling at the pastern joint, and alluded to a case in a young gentle- 
man which had come under his notice, and in which the cure was 
