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of thin purulent matter. The swelling is extending along the 
belly from the scrotum. 
\0th Day .—Similar knotty tumefactions have made their ap¬ 
pearance from the other hind and both the fore limbs, and also 
upon the head and neck ; all the limbs have become swollen, but 
most of all the olF hind, to which now the lameness is transferred. 
He has commenced emitting purulent matter from the nostrils. 
His appetite has not been much impaired, although irritative fever 
has been and continues to be a concomitant of these unfavourable 
eruptions. He has been briskly purged, and daily exercised for 
two or three hours. 
On the 26th day after the operation, he was destroyed, in 
consequence of his hopeless condition, in the last stage of farcy, 
coupled with glanders. 
SUBSTANCE OF AN INTRODUCTORY LECTURE ON 
THE ANATOMY AND DISEASES OF CATTLE, 
SHEEP, SWINE, DOGS, &c. 
By Mr. Youatt. 
IN the best ages of Greece and Rome, the veterinary art was 
held in that estimation which its utility and importance merited. 
The practice of it either formed a distinct division of the medical 
profession, and was embraced by those who occupied no mean 
station in the society and literature of the times, or it formed a 
part of the duty of the human physician. Xenophon, the favour¬ 
ite disciple of the wisest of the Grecian sages, and the leader of 
the ten thousand, disdained not to employ many of the hours of 
his honourable retirement in writing on the management and 
diseases of the horse; and Hippocrates, the father of medicine, 
condescended to treat on the veterinary art. Until the irruption of 
the barbarians, and the destruction of almost eveiy record of 
knowledge, the practice of veterinary was reckoned second only 
to that of human medicine. 
When the night of darkness produced by the ravages of the 
northern hordes began to pass away, and other professions vindi¬ 
cated their claim to attention and respect, the veterinarian re¬ 
mained degraded and despised. A change had taken place with 
regard to some part of the treatment of the horse. Shoes of iron 
had been attached to his feet. These were manufactured and 
l^pplied by rude and untaught mechanics, who, from this.occa- 
