THE INTRODUCTORY LECTURES. G65 
its progress. This he can do only by noticing' the infected, and 
confiningThem in an enclosure. If the shepherds are anxious 
and vigilant in detecting it, and make a judicious use of the cure, 
they at length succeed in extirpating it: but if the summers be 
wet, the stock numerous, and the disease extended, it may take 
several years to root it out entirely. 
Prize Essays of the Highland Societi/. 
THE VETERINARIAN, DECEMBER 1, 1834. 
Nc quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
The unavoidable appendage of an Index to the concluding- 
number of the year prevents the insertion of a review which has 
lain some weeks on our table, and also compels us to postpone 
several communications from valued correspondents. Our sati¬ 
rical friend, Paul Pry, must also put off for a little while, his de¬ 
sired, dreaded visit. 
This has been a busy month with veterinary teachers and their 
pupils. On the morning of the 3d of November, Mr. Spooner 
commenced his anatomical lectures and demonstrations in Col¬ 
lege Street. For thirty years past it has been too justly com¬ 
plained that adequate instruction on this most important, this 
fundamental branch of veterinary education, has not been given 
within the College walls. In the time of the writer of this article 
it was a mere mockery, and, at no later period, has it deserved 
a better name. It is fortunate for the pupils that a gentleman, 
whose diligence and accuracy as a veterinary anatomist were 
never disputed, nor his anxiety to impart instruction to his pupils, 
has taken up his residence in the immediate vicinity of the Col¬ 
lege. The students have eagerly availed themselves of the ad¬ 
vantage thus afforded them, and every examination has proved 
that they have acted wisely. Mr. Spooner, with a liberality that 
should not pass unnoticed, usually demonstrates from subjects 
provided at his own expense; and if he will, as he may have op¬ 
portunity, let them be taken from various classes of veterinary 
patients, his plan will be complete. 
On the evening of the same day the veterinary lecturer at the 
University of London appeared at his post, after a twelvemonth’s 
absence. It was scarcely prudent for him to do so, for he lec¬ 
tured in pain ; and, on the following day, he was again a prisoner 
in his house. He is better; and, probably, in the early part of 
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