VETERINARY EDUCATION. 
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that at the College, the large plates published originally in 
Blaine’s Folio Anatomy, and similar ones by Kirtland, may 
easily be procured. Make yourself well acquainted with the 
names of the different bones, their precise form, their relative 
situation and connexion. This is the first and not very difficult 
task, and advance not a single step until you have perfectly 
mastered it. 
Then take one of the extremities, and study its muscles and 
the manner in which its different parts are connected together. 
Begin at the upper end, and carefully work your way down¬ 
ward. 
As you proceed endeavour to obtain not only a correct idea 
of the form and connexion of each part, and the origin and in¬ 
sertion of every muscle, ' but of their proper function and use. 
Let your physiology, even from the beginning, and so far as 
observation and diligence will accomplish it, keep pace with 
your anatomy. 
While you are thus engaged on the skeleton, or the extremi¬ 
ties, devote a portion of every day to the perusal of some ele¬ 
mentary treatise on Physiology, that you may acquire some 
conception, afterwards to be enlarged and perfected, of the 
fundamental principles of life. I do not know a better treatise 
on Physiology than that of Richerand as translated by Copland, 
and rendered more valuable by his copious notes. It is not, 
perhaps, a very profound book, but it is well adapted for the 
perusal of the young student. 
Read the first 75 pages, until you arrive at the functions of 
the different organs. There stop. You will injure yourself by 
poring over that which you do not understand, and you cannot 
understand the function of an organ, until you are perfectly 
acquainted with its anatomy. 
When you have arrived at the 75th page of Richerand begin 
some popular treatise on Natural Philosophy. Mr. Marcet’s 
Conversations or Millington’s Epitome are the best. This will 
admirably prepare you for the consideration of the functions of 
the more important organs. 
Believe me, my young friend, that they counsel you wrongly 
who would persuade you that a knowledge of Natural Philoso¬ 
phy will do the Veterinarian no good. Among those by whom 
you will probably be employed, and particularly among the 
wealthy agriculturists, you will find many inquiring minds. 
Your natural and best associate and friend, the medical man of 
the town or village in which you may be settled, will not expect 
to find you less informed than hi's youngest apprentice, or his 
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