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ety is so different. We will not conceal our firm opinion that 
the whole system requires and will, at no great distance of 
tirne, undergo a thorough change. 
Two professors might be suflScient for fourteen pupils. They 
were sufficient for trying the experiment as to the possibility of 
permanently establishing a Veterinary College. When, how¬ 
ever, the class consists of seventy or eighty, many from the in¬ 
ferior, but some, and more if they were encouraged, from the 
superior ranks of society—when the veterinary surgeon isj by 
-virtue of his profession, a gentleman—when his success is to 
be founded on the union of science and humanity’’—when he 
is to be sent into the country with all the learning of the human 
physician”—when the medical profession is to be more in¬ 
debted to him than to any other source”—when each suc¬ 
ceeding generation is to have more professional knowledge than 
their predecessors,” the system pursued at the college will not 
effect these desired objects. 
The college is established. The funds are ample. They are 
sufficient to afford a moderately remunerating salary to addi¬ 
tional professors, and Mr. Coleman tells us, that he is not 
anxious to exclude talent from the veterinary college.” 
Let Mr. Coleman be director of the college. If we some¬ 
what re-model the institution, we do not want to get rid of him, 
for we should not find a better man. Let him continue to de¬ 
liver his physiological and pathological lectures. 
' Let Mr. Sewell remain as the clinical instructor, and let it be 
an indispensible part of his duty to describe disease, and the 
indications of cure, while standing by the diseased animal. 
Let an anatomical teacher be selected, and, under him an ef¬ 
ficient demonstrator, who shall at certain hours in the day be 
invariably found in the dissecting room. 
Let there be likewise a chemical professor, who, so far as it 
may be necessary, shall explain the fundamental principles of 
chemistry, and their application to medicine ; the nature of 
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