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their development to the continuance of the antiphlogistic regi¬ 
men ; since it is well known that herbivorous animals fed on 
provender deprived of its exciting properties, innutritions and 
washy, are the ordinary subjects of verminous disorders. 
“ VI. What we can lay down with still greater assurance, from the unexcep¬ 
tionable evidence furnished by experience, is that all worms, and consequently 
biliary as well as intestinal, arc generated only under certain morbid condi¬ 
tions; and that these conditions, wellknown at the present day, consist in the 
existence of chronic irritation in the parts which breed the worms. So that 
any provender of a kind-to dispose to such states, be it excitant or indigestible 
from other causes, may turn out to be accidentally the producer of such affec¬ 
tions ; but an antiphlogistic regimen, simply from its debilitating influence, can 
have no such effect. On the contrary, this regimen would be desirable pro¬ 
viding it were in truth calculated to combat efficaciously those irritations 
favouring the production of the worms, since it would prevent their formation, 
which is to be regarded as the effect and not the cause.’’ 
(To be continued,) 
erommunicationsi anU 
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VETERINARY EDUCATION. 
To the Editor of the Veterinarian* 
Sir ; 
IF you deem a couple of letters, addressed to a Young Veteri¬ 
nary Student, worthy a place in your valuable Journal, you will 
oblige me by inserting them. 
I am, &c. 
Philo-Vet. 
March 3, 1828. 
My Dear Young Friend; 
I MOST willingly comply’with your request, and will 
trace the outline of that course of study, which, in my humble 
opinion, you will with most advantage pursue during your at¬ 
tendance at the Veterinary College. 
My first advice, or, rather, my earnest entreaty, will be Aim 
high enoiigh)' It is true that, not many years ago, the name of 
Veterinary Surgeon was unknown. We were all Farriers and 
