812 COMMENCEMENT OF THE SESSION 1839-40 
Mayor’s apparatus for the local application of steam will be found 
exceedingly useful. Some improvements have been made on the 
trevis, both by Mr. Mavor and Mr. Skelton. To Mr. Gloag and 
Mr. Daws we owe a safer and more effective application of the 
casting hobbles. 
“ And now, gentlemen,*’ said he, “ we are commencing a new 
and very important session. Permit me to say, that those of you 
who are new to the profession should pay the closest attention to 
the study of anatomy. You will have every opportunity for it. 
Mr. Spooner will superintend your dissections ; Mr. Barthe, whose 
duties will more especially lie in the dissecting-room, will always 
be ready to assist. Here you must begin. This will constitute 
the only sure foundation of future knowledge and successful 
practice. 
“ To those who have been accustomed to veterinary practice under 
their parents or masters the diligent study of anatomy is quite 
as indispensable : it will rectify many an erroneous notion which 
they had formed, and brought with them to the College; and it 
will most usefully confirm the right notions which they had enter- 
tained of certain parts and certain modes of practice. 
“ Our instruction and your practice will extend to all domesticated 
animals. We are all general practitioners. In this character 
alone can we be fully useful to our employers or benefit ourselves. 
“ Anatomy comprises the general structure of the body — the 
form and mechanism of the frame. The bones by which the whole 
machine is supported — the arteries by which it is supplied with 
blood — the veins by which the blood is returned for repurification 
— and the nervous system, by which the whole is influenced and 
governed. 
“Physiology includes the functions of the different parts — the 
manner in which these important objects are accomplished. I take 
as an illustration the manner in which that beautiful optical instru- 
ment the eye — at once a telescope and a microscope — makes us 
acquainted with the objects around us; the powerful means of 
which the ear is alive to the concord of sweet sounds ; the taste is 
gratified by many a delightful flavour, and the whole frame is 
sensible to the impressions of surrounding objects : these are the 
