CHEMISTRY, METEOROLOGY, &C. 235 
more attended to at the Veterinary College than formerly. We 
are happy to hear of it. During our pupilage (about eleven 
years since), we had the opportunity, with others, of hearing the 
excellent lectures of Messrs. Brand and Faraday on Chemistry, 
and of Dr. Pearson on Materia Medica; but not one pupil out 
of ten that attended those lectures derived any benefit from them. 
The fault lay not in the lecturers, but in the pupds, since they 
could not comprehend what they heard. Their education had 
rarely extended far beyond reading and writing; their knowledge 
of medicine was confined to a few recipes for cordial, diuretic and 
purging balls, and of the qualities of even the few drugs that 
they employed they were entirely ignorant. Pharmacy was not 
then taught at the College; indeed, at this period, there was no 
such a book as a Veterinary Pharmacopoeia. They are indebted, 
we are told, to their active and well-informed dispenser for a 
short one now. May he derive sufficient encouragement, and 
most of all from the heads of the institution, to induce him to 
enlarge and to complete it! 
But chemistry is as applicable to other branches of our science 
as to veterinary pharmacy. It is intimately connected with 
physiology; and although, from the present state of our know¬ 
ledge, it has not been proved to be of much service to pathology 
in a practical manner, yet the time will assuredly come when it 
will enable the practitioner to wield his remedies with a certainty 
and precision of which he has not now the slightest conception. 
But we have forgotten the author and his treatise. The in¬ 
tention of the Bridgewater Treatises is to point out the various 
evidences of design among the objects of creation; and to de¬ 
duce from them the existence and the attributes of the Creator. 
And well has Dr. Prout fulfilled the task imposed on him. 
He has divided his treatise into three books .—The first Book 
contains preliminary observations on the rank of chemistry as a 
science, and its application to the argument of design. It treats 
of the mutual operation of physical agents and of matter, and of 
the laws which they obey : of the solid, liquid, and gaseous forms 
of bodies: of the properties of heat, light. Sec.: of chemical 
elementary principles, and of the laws of their combination.— 
The second Book has reference to meteorology, comprehending a 
general sketch of the constitution of the globe, and of the dis¬ 
tribution and mutual influence of the ao;ents and elements of 
chemistry in the economy of nature .—The third Book treats of 
the chemistry of organization, particularly of the chemical pro¬ 
cess of digestion ; and of the subsequent processes by which 
various alimentary substances are assimilated to and become 
component parts of a living body. 
