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CATTLE PATHOLOGY. 
health. Nevertheless a great deal of useful information will be 
collected in this way. 
There is one point, however, to which we must return again and 
again, until the expectations of the English Agricultural Society, 
and the wishes of the united country, and the demands of the 
pupil, are accomplished to their full extent. We disavow every 
feeling of personal disrespect. We can admire the zeal of him who 
would attempt, and fain would worthily execute, every part of his 
duty as professor of pathology ; but there may be an accumulation 
of duties to which no individual is or can be equal, and of the at¬ 
tempting of which an inadequate performance of the whole is a 
necessary consequence. So it is here. The student must be pre¬ 
pared to recognise and successfully to treat the diseases of every 
domesticated animal, indicated as they are in each species by 
symptoms obscure and apparently contradictory, and attended by 
consequences of which he alone who has studied them all in the 
living animal can form the slightest conception. The natural tem¬ 
perament of the ox and the horse have in them something, in ap¬ 
pearance at least, diametrically opposite; and so far from the treat¬ 
ment of the one preparing for that of the other, there are few things 
in which the unwarned practitioner would be more likely to err. 
It is a long course of practice which alone can prepare the teacher 
of cattle pathology for the honest and adequate discharge of his 
duty. Many a man might be found in the prime of life, and in 
the full possession of all his powers, bodily and mental—many a 
man who on the foundation which a good education has laid has 
built a reputation for much deep and scientific acquirement; but 
that is not the man who can successfully unfold and teach all the 
difficulties of cattle practice. No! he must come from among his 
patients—he must have lived among them—he must have seen 
that which he teaches, and not merely learned it from the dicta 
of others. 
]Mr. Hallen has mentioned the name of a gentleman who would 
be fully competent to the task—Mr. Byron, of Ashton. We have 
the pleasure of knowing him, and we duly estimate his talent and 
skill. We believe him to be fully capable of the task : but in dif¬ 
ferent parts of the country there are doubtless others who have 
studied in the same school, and might render the state service. 
