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demonstrator, or rather he asserts that there is one. Is he, we 
ask again, always, or ever at his post? Why is this inexcusa¬ 
ble neglect suffered to continue from year to year ? 
If we are not wrongly informed Mr. , Coleman would have 
gone further. He would have introduced an anatomical teacher 
at the college. Who or what prevented him? Where was the 
obstacle? We would fain know who or what arrests the pro¬ 
gress of improvement! 
Clinical Instruction ! how important and how sadly neglect* 
ed ! Diseases are no more to be learned from lectures, than 
anatomy from books. The most faithful detail of symptoms, 
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and the most judicious rules for the general treatment of disease 
will not be sufficiently embodied in the mind of the student. 
The diseased animal must be placed before him. He must have ' 
ocular demonstration of the symptoms by which the malady is 
characterized. He must have the opportunity of studying the., 
mode of treatment, evidently dependent on the nature and in¬ 
tensity of the symptoms, and varying with their changes. Then,, 
and then only, will the grand principles of pathology be inde¬ 
libly engraved on his memory. Fifty minutes employed in as 
many cases, and not one-tenth part of the pupils aware either 
of the disease or the means resorted to ! This is not the way to 
educate the veterinary surgeon. 
We were pleased to hear that, previous to, and since his last 
illness, Mr. Coleman regularly went through the Infirmary on 
his lecture mornings, and sometimes discoursed at considerable 
length on the nature and treatment of the diseases which passed 
under his inspection. 
We entreat him to continue this most essential part of his 
duty, and to extend his observations to all the maladies which 
may present themselves, and, particularly to those of every-day 
occurrence. The foot is an important organ, but there are 
others not less so, and almost as frequently diseased. Grease 
is a stubborn malady, but there are others as intractible and 
