450 MR. youatt’s introductory lecture. 
country, instructed in the medical treatment of the one million 
and a half, and no professor appointed, no surgeon educated, for 
the forty-one millions; nay, that they should not be deemed worthy 
of a single lecture, although they constitute the very w ealth of the 
kingdom? They are subject to disease ; the dog far more so than 
the horse. The ox has the hoose, and the murrain, and the blood. 
Three sheep in every hundred are supposed to die annually of the 
blood alone, three of the rot, and, if we reckon but two for all other 
diseases, eight in every hundred are annually lost to the farmer; 
and three millions sterling are, in the mortality of sheep alone, 
to be annually subtracted from the property of the agriculturist 
and the riches of the state. 
I wall not say that the best instructed veterinarian would save 
to the grazier the whole or the greater pail of this immense sum; 
but if the medical treatment of our domestic animals w ere under¬ 
taken by those who had studied their anatomy, oeconomy, and 
diseases, much good would inevitably residt. 
The Veterinary College has done much to ameliorate the condi¬ 
tion of the horse. Other domestic quadrupeds have an equal, 
and, in point of value, a superior claim on the attention of the pro¬ 
fessors and governors. The time, I tmst, is not far distant, when 
they wall feel this, and make the veterinary school that which the 
interests of the student and the state equally and imperiously re¬ 
quire. Until this be the case, I am encouraged to attempt, and 
with your support shall continue, a course of lectures on the 
structure and maladies of these neglected but valuable animals. 
I never met with a veterinary surgeon in the country who did not 
express his deep and bitter sense of the inconvenience he had felt 
and the loss he had sustained, both in reputation and emolument, 
from being sent into life ignorant of that which necessarily 
formed a part, and, if he had had sufficient preparation to en¬ 
courage it, a very important part of his practice. 
(To be continued.) 
THE LETTER FROM NON-ELIGIBLE^^ TO SIR 
ASTLEY COOPER, BART. 
(Continued from page 321.) 
I CONCLUDED the former part of this letter to you, SirAstley, 
with stating, that the examining board being called on by the 
governors of the Veterinary College for an official report on the 
expediency or utility of admitting veterinary surgeons into the 
