698 mr. coleman’s introductory lecture. 
had ignorantly imagined that, in the very words of the professor, 
“ a watchmaker could not repair a watch, unless he was per¬ 
fectly acquainted with the mechanism of the watch.” We have, 
however, seen the effect of this strange tirade against com¬ 
parative anatomy, in confining the inquiries of the student to the 
structure of the horse alone. We perfectly agree with Mr. Cole¬ 
man, that we can only by “experiment and experience” ascertain 
the effect of the same medicine on different animals, and that it 
is absurd to conclude that because it produces a certain effect on 
one animal, it will in the same, or in any dose, produce a similar 
effect on others* but we cannot connect this with any injurious 
study of comparative anatomy, so far as the pupil lias oppor¬ 
tunity to pursue it; and we do connect it with the neglect of that 
which is of paramount importance to him, and especially in 
reference to Mr. Coleman’s declaration, that his lectures would 
embrace “the anatomy , physiology , and pathology of the horse , 
and the diseases of other domestic animals .” There is something 
in all this perfectly incomprehensible to us; and we are, at times, 
half inclined to think that “ more is meant than meets the ear.” 
Mr. Coleman touched on another subject, an old grievance 
with us, and with his most intelligent and staunchest and best 
friends; viz. the comparative advantages of the student previously 
medically educated and the farrier's son. Why should this 
invidious and erroneous, totally erroneous, line of distinction be 
so pertinaciously drawn ? 
The picture, however, was not so highly coloured as it was 
wont to be. Mr. Coleman expressly denied that he had ever 
said that the medical man could not make a good veterinary 
surgeon; but be had asserted that the medical man laboured 
under serious disadvantages, from his previous ignorance of the 
horse; that he was likely to become disgusted with many cir¬ 
cumstances connected with his profession; and that, speaking 
from his experience as director of the college, the medical man 
comparatively rarely succeeded. He added, “ I have had one 
hundred and thirty medical pupils; but if I were asked where 
they were, I could not tell: I cannot find them; at least in this 
metropolis I cannot:” arid then he related a story of a medically 
