CLINICAL INSTRUCTION. 
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causes, vary in an instant, and without limit, the subject of the 
lecture; and it is necessary, except he is content with common 
place remarks, without utility and without interest, that the clini¬ 
cal professor should be able in a moment to concentrate all his 
ideas, and all his acquirements and knowledge, on the subject 
which may chance to present itself before him. 
In many schools, the visit which is paid in the morning to the 
animals contained in the infirmary is confounded with clinical 
instruction, and is the only clinical instruction which the pupil 
receives. These are, however, very different things. A few words 
spoken at hazard, and which are scarcely heard by half the 
pupils that are tumultuously surrounding the Professor, can never 
be regarded as a clinical lecture. It is in the theatre that the 
pupils must assemble for true clinical instruction. It is there that, 
silent and at their ease, they can comprehend and profit by the 
profound views of disease, and its course, and its accompani¬ 
ments, and its consequences, and its varieties, which the expe¬ 
rience of the day has brought before them. It is in this manner 
that M. Dupuy has conducted the clinical instruction of the 
school of Toulouse. The diseases, being thus studied with care 
among or immediately after examination of the animals them¬ 
selves, become proofs or applications of the principles of physio¬ 
logy and pathology which other courses of lectures contain. 
In the month of April there have been in the infirmary, and 
on each of them clinical lectures have been delivered, thirty-five 
horses, five mules, four oxen, two cows, and fourteen dogs* ; 
besides several other animals which have been bought for experi¬ 
ment on the effect of medicines, and on certain points of phy¬ 
siology. 
This is what a veterinary school ought to be .— Ed. 
Expensive Shoeing. 
Entry oj James Hay , Ambassador , into Paris , under James I. 
But when he made his public entry into Paris as ambassador, 
his cloak and hose were white beaver, richly embroidered with 
silver, llis cloak had no other lining than embroidery ; his 
doublet was cloth of gold, richly wrought; his white beaver hat 
brimful of embroidery. His horse was shod with silver shoes, 
slightly tacked on; so that every curvet threw one off to be 
scrambled for by the populace, and that was instantly replaced 
by a farrier, who attended on purpose.— Pennant’s Second Tour 
in Scotland , in Pinkerton’s Travels , vol. iii, p. 401. 
* In the preceding month theie wcie twenty-six hoists, twenty-one 
oxen, tour mules, twenty-two dogs, and i»ix pigs. 
