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measures will be taken to carry this into effect, and that a far more 
careful and correct inquiry into the pathology of the ruminant, 
which has hitherto been so strangely and unpardonably neglected, 
will be introduced and duly appreciated. Few will deny this is a 
desideratum which must be accomplished in order to wipe away the 
disgrace of by-gone days: yet, even at this crisis, we have reason 
to fear, from what emanated from the Professor the other day, 
that the mantle of darkness must for awhile continue to rest upon 
us. IMr. Sewell informs us that " it is not the intention of the 
Governors to appoint any other professor on the Pathology of 
Cattle,” &c., but that they were fully satisfied that he was able to 
teach all which was required in this branch of veterinary instruc¬ 
tion. 
What can we say to this 1 We all know Mr. Sewell’s ardour 
and industry, and doubt not that he will endeavour to supply the 
loss of the late Professor; but who will be bold enough to say that 
he, Mr. Sewell, is competent to teach all that is required on cattle 
and sheep. Who ever heard the Professor lecture on puerperal 
fever, or did he ever see a case of it 1 How far does his know¬ 
ledge extend on blain, separate from wdiat he lately gathered as 
the groundwork of his circular on the prevailing epidemic 1 What 
is his opinion on red-water as a disease of the urinary or digestive 
organs 1 Who ever heard him mention felon, the disease which is 
often so annoying to the farmer and fatal to cattle 1 What is his 
opinion on foul in the foot ] What are its causes 1 What its re¬ 
medies 1 To what degree is it or is it not infectious] What is 
his opinion of the infectious or non-infectious character of abortion 
in cattle ] What has he said on black-quarter in calves ] What 
is his opinion on hemiplegia, paraplegia, and other paralytic dis¬ 
eases that cattle are Subject to ] What are the warnings—what 
the diagnostic symptoms—what thg cause ] What is the extent 
of his lessons and his experience on the different operations which 
we are frequently called on to perform ] Has he ever practically 
illustrated the propriety or the impropriety, or the mode of per¬ 
forming the operation of embryotomy, or extracting the calf by 
piecemeal ? Or when did he inform us in what cases the Caesarean 
operation might be practised with success, and illustrated bv his 
)wn exnnqde the most scientific method of operating ^ 
