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THE MEMORIAL OF THE 
A new class of patients is added to those that have usually oc¬ 
cupied the attention of the Professors of the Veterinary College. 
The breeds of cattle and sheep are more diligently cultivated and 
far more valuable than they were half a century ago. The pro¬ 
prietor feels more interest in their health and disease, and entertains 
a higher opinion of those persons by whom the first may be pro¬ 
longed and the latter removed. A knowledge of the proper treat¬ 
ment of the diseases of these animals is becoming more and more 
important to the veterinary student every year. 
“ In recommending a distinct professorship for the pathological 
department of cattle, sheep, &c. let it not for a moment be sup¬ 
posed that we do not entertain the highest respect for the present 
Professor. We yield to none in our esteem and regard for him; 
but he has more imposed upon him than he can possibly accomplish 
with satisfaction to himself and full advantage to the pupils. The 
duties to be performed with regard to the horse alone, if properly 
discharged, require all the energy of mind and body which he can 
give to them; and those belonging to the department of cattle, 
sheep, 8^c. cannot he 'performed in such a manner as to carry out, 
fairly and honestly, the views of the farmer, and particularly of 
the Agricidtural Society and of the professional body. 
The consequence of this, at some remote, or, perhaps, no very 
distant time, will be the establishment of another institution in the 
heart of the country, to the irretrievable injury of the College. We 
are addressing our veterinary brethren, and the plain and evident 
truth must be frankly spoken; and therefore it is that in our memo¬ 
rial to the Governors we have earnestly entreated the appointment 
of a Pathological Professor for Cattle. Among all our brethren who 
have been bred among cattle, and who have practised on their dis¬ 
eases almost from their childhood—and from this class of men he 
must be selected—more than one could be found, who would pro¬ 
duce at a public competition, satisfactory testimonials of his ability 
to discharge the duties of the office to which he aspires. 
“ But there is that on which this practice must be founded, or 
with which it must be associated, in order to be successfully con¬ 
ducted; or, in fact, to be any thing more than the mere pretension 
of an empiric; we allude to a knowledge of the anatomy and phy¬ 
siology of these animals. There are many of our brethren who 
possess this to a highly creditable degree; yet there might be some 
difficulty in finding the person in whom they are so fully com¬ 
bined, as to enable him with honour to undertake the professorship 
to which we have been alluding. We are speaking here altogether 
without authority; but there is a gentleman now at the Veterinary 
College, who, to a most perfect knowledge of the anatomy of the 
horse, unites a highly creditable one of those of the inferior animals 
—who rarely delivers any lecture on the structure of the horse 
which is not illustrated and rendered more interesting by allusions 
