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them as well as in man. There is, then, opened to us a new 
and a rich mine of physiological and pathological research—the 
perversions of instinct and of intellect in the brute; andwt is 
well worthy of exploration. 
THE VETERINARIAN, NOVEMBER 1 , 1835 . 
Nc quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicjero. 
The middle of November will be a busy period with veteri¬ 
nary instructors and their pupils in the south and in the north. 
On the 16 th, Professor Coleman’s Lectures on the Physiology 
and Pathology of the Horse will commence. The superior ta¬ 
lent of that gentleman, his bitterest enemies never dared to deny; 
nor the tact with which he seizes and illustrates the most inte¬ 
resting points of every subject that comes before him—intelligible 
to the youngest, and listened to with pleasure by the best in¬ 
formed of his class, and generally leading the majority of them 
unresistingly to the conclusion to which he wished to bring 
them. His lectures on the eye, on the foetal circulation, and es¬ 
pecially on the foot, will never be forgotten by those who had 
the good fortune to hear them. If the attention of the student 
might seem to be a little too exclusively directed to theoretical 
speculations, this was the character which instruction in a new 
science—and new it was in England at that time—must of neces¬ 
sity assume. The anatomy and physiology of an animal; the 
nature, the seat, the cause of disease may be early taught; but a 
considerable period of time must elapse before the teacher can 
fully and satisfactorily, because experimentally, speak of the 
treatment of disease. 
In a more familiar, but far more important branch of veteri¬ 
nary tuition—the elucidation of disease and its treatment while 
the patient is standing by—Professor Coleman was even more 
successful and useful. The two, and sometimes the three hours 
which were spent in the college-yard, when the Professor would 
