402 ON VETERINARY MEDICAL EDUCATION. 
The son of the owner was inclined to fancy that she had been im¬ 
posing the lameness on us. I directed that the extremity should 
be bathed with warm vinegar and water, and that the filly should 
be kept perfectly quiet. 
1st of Januaryy 1826.—Nearly well. Continue the application. 
In a few days she was perfectly well. 
I have seen one or two cases similar to the above; but they 
were first affected in one extremity and then in the other, and 
would get well for a short time and then be as bad as ever, but 
ultimately get well. Treatment: bleeding, physicking, and putting 
rowels in thigh, and kept quiet. 
In all these cases the animals were out at grass, and the disease 
was probably caused by their lying on wet ground. 
ON VETERINARY MEDICAL EDUCATION. 
Letter II. 
(Continued from page 133.) 
My DEAR Young Friend, 
ONE advantage which you will derive from your admission to 
the College, is the privilege of hearing the lectures of the pro¬ 
fessor. An advantage, if you rightly improve the opportunity; 
a thing of no moment if you are faithless to yourself. 
That the lectures of Mr. Coleman are exceedingly valuable 
I need not tell you ; but I must remind you, that if you are con¬ 
tent with a careless attendance on them, without subsequent and 
serious study, the impression they make will be perfectly evanes¬ 
cent, and your time will be uselessly employed. 
In the first place, I would say, be constant in your attendance 
on them. Let no call of pleasure, no capricious whim, not even 
a slight indisposition, induce you to be absent from one of them. 
By a single absence you will, in some measure, lose the thread 
of the professor’s argument; and you will probably be ignorant of 
some principle to which he will afterwards refer, and without 
which you cannot comprehend the full scope of his reasoning. 
Having once rendered your record, or your conception of his 
doctrines, imperfect, a much slighter temptation will prevail on 
■you to absent yourself a second time ; and a habit of inattention 
and negligence will soon be formed. Make these lectures your 
own. They are your’s so far as your own improvement is con¬ 
cerned. Every day commit the substance of them to writing. 
In order to effect this, should you take notes at the time ? This 
is a question somewhat difficult to answer. It depends on the 
