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rive much pleasure, and a very useful lesson, from observing the 
readiness with which the Assistant Professor detects the slightest 
possible lameness, and refers it to its proper situation and cause. 
This is a tact cheaply bought at any expenditure of time and 
attention. 
Another very great improvement has taken place, within a few 
years, at the Veterinary College, viz.; the establishment of a 
course of Chemical Lectures, by the Dispenser, Mr. Morton ; and 
including not merely a history of substances and drugs—not 
merely a luminous detail of the general principles of chemistry— 
but a diligent application of these to the business of the pupil, 
veterinary medicine and pharmacy. A long residence at the 
College has rendered Mr. Morton well acquainted with the medi¬ 
cinal agents resorted to by the Professors in the cases which come 
before them, and the change or modification of these agents, ac¬ 
cording to the progress or change of the disease. This is the 
foundation of a veterinary materia medica, which only a gentle¬ 
man who had possessed such opportunities could efficiently teach. 
And when to this he adds an outline of Botany, as enabling the 
student to recognize and make himself acquainted with the natural 
history of several of the medicaments employed ; and, yet more, 
when the lecturer adds a kind of summary of the bearing of 
chemistry on the principles and the practice of agriculture, thus 
fitting the veterinary surgeon, by and by, to meet his employer 
on higher ground, to identify himself more fully with him, and 
to be more eminently useful to him—such a lecturer deserves, 
and he will have, the attendance and confidence of every student 
who is anxious to do justice to himself. Mr. Morton lectures in 
the College on every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evening, 
at seven o’clock. 
There is a duty far too much neglected—a neatness and 
expertness in performing the various operations and manipula¬ 
tions about the feet. The sons of practitioners will come already 
instructed in these things; but they who have not had this pre¬ 
vious advantage, and a great one it is, should spend a certain 
time every day in the forge. Stripped, and witli aj)ron on, they 
should not be satisfied until they are able to take off, and put on 
