PROFESSOR Coleman’s introductory lecture. 465 
We could have partly forgiven even this, had any thing like 
equal justice been rendered; but when the professor turns to the 
other class of his pupils, he recommends them, indeed, to attend, 
closely to their anatomy, and to avail themselves of every oppor¬ 
tunity of post-mortem examination, and carefully to compare the 
appearance after death with the symptoms during life. This is 
most excellent! but he adds, do this, gentlemen, and you will 
find no difficulty; for the diseases of the horse are few, and easily 
understood.^^ 
To the assertion that the diseases of the horse are few, we should 
most seriously demur. We will ask, whether there be a viscus or 
a membrane, which does not occasionally, in our post-mortem 
examinations, give indication of previous disease. The truth of the 
matter is, that we have not sufficiently attended to, and distin¬ 
guished and classed, the symptoms of quadruped disease.-—But, 
probably, of this hereafter. 
We cannot really see the propriety of this marked attack on the 
medical, and deference to the uneducated pupil. Its obvious, 
although not designed effect, is to discourage and drive away the 
very ornaments of our profession. 
The professor says, that long habit has enabled him pretty con¬ 
fidently to tell who will and who will not succeed, and medical 
students make the worst practitioners. Let us examine his 
proscribed list. First stands the name of Coleman, thirty years 
professor of the college. Shall we stop here, or farther explore 
the absurdity of this matter ? Coleman, the present professor;— 
Moorcroft, the joint professor with Mr. Coleman at the establish¬ 
ment of the college, and now at the head of our profession in 
India;—Peall, the late professor of the Dublin College;—Blaine, 
for many a year the only anatomical teacher we had;—Bracy 
Clark;—W. Percivall;—the Goodwins, father and son. Where 
will the veterinary world produce a constellation of talent compara¬ 
ble to this ? The acknowledged heads of the profession in Great 
Britain, Ireland, and India,—the authors of the best, and almost 
the only, valuable treatises on the veterinary art, were not only 
very bad, but the worst practitioners. Then, fy on those who 
placed them in these posts of honour, and surrounded them with 
this false reputation. 
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