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VETERINARY SURGERY. 
at Copenhagen, Madrid, Vienna, Berlin, Dresden, Leipsic, 
Prague, Munich, Fribourg, Marbourg, Mayence, Bombay, 
H anover, Turin, Naples, Parma, Padua, and, last of all, London. 
The history of this last institution is given at considerable 
length. The author was a student of it—a student of all three 
of the schools now existing, and therefore competent to furnish 
an impartial account of each of them. To all that he says of the 
advantages the St. Pancras school affords, and the good it has 
done, we yield our cordial assent. From the College have pro¬ 
ceeded all our valued authors, and, with few exceptions, our best 
practitioners. Its pupils have succeeded, so far as could be expected 
in so short a time, in rooting out the farrier and the cow-leech, 
with their absurd and mischievous practices; and they have in¬ 
culcated a more rational and humane system of managing ani¬ 
mals in health. Glanders, farcy, grease, mange, blindness, and 
a host of other diseases, which used to rage with unrestrained 
violence,” are, without comparison, more rare; and the beneficial 
influence of a total change in stable management is every day 
more apparent. 
The defects of the College system of education, at which the 
author likewise glances, come not within the scope of our present 
observation. 
The Edinburgh Veterinary School comes next under review; 
but here, although we do not accuse the author of wilful misre¬ 
presentation, some unkindly feeling marks the picture which he 
draws with lines far too harsh, and with shadows too broad and 
deep. We regret this, because there is enough in other parts of 
this little brochure to convince us that the writer is capable of 
good and generous feeling, and has the cause of our profession 
sincerely and warmly at heart. In another edition of his work— 
and it will soon be called for—we much mistake if this will not 
be honourably and fully redeemed. 
Of the third school, that at the University of London, it be¬ 
comes us only to say, that he has a little over-rated the personal 
exertions of the Lecturer. His pupils are now transferred to 
IMr. Morton’s school, in order to learn the medical and chemical 
properties of the drugs used in veterinary medicines; and, as tlie 
author properly observes, it being impossible to run over the struc- 
