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again interfere with the completion of the course. The subject of 
these lectures will be the nature, symptoms, causes, treatment, 
and usual result of the diseases of all domesticated animals, as 
modified by the structure, locality, force, habits, and destiny of 
each. Considering the instruction which the veterinary pupil 
receives on the diseases of the horse in the College of St. Pancras, 
and the works of the most talented veterinarians, the sketch of 
that animal, although faithful, will be brief; and cattle, sheep, 
swine, and dogs, will be the prominent objects of attention. 
The pathology of these animals will be rendered as complete as 
the lecturer can make it, while each will be advantageously illus¬ 
trated by immediate comparison with the rest. A very rapid 
glance, however, may occasionally be directed to other patients, 
native or wild, whose diseases the lecturer has had opportunity 
of closely observing. 
At present these lectures will be primarily directed to the im¬ 
provement of t\\Qveterinary pupil, and will be studiously adapted 
to his situation and wishes and wants: they will, with the ex¬ 
ceptions just alluded to, essentially be what they have hitherto 
been. But the lecturer does not deny that they are offered as a 
first but humble attempt at that course of instruction which the 
veterinary surgeon alone can give, and which will eventually be 
acknowledged as of paramount importance to the medical, as 
well as the veterinary student— comparative pathology. 
It is interestino; to both to observe how the structure of a 
certain orfjan is varied in different animals, according to their 
food and their destiny, in order that the perfect function of that 
organ may be secured in each. These are admirable elucidations 
of the wisdom and the benevolence of Him who made all. These 
inquiries, also, cannot fail of giving the student more extended and 
satisfactory views of the nature of the function, the influence of 
structure, and of external and internal circumstances upon it, and, 
in fact, every thing by which it is affected, deteriorated, perfected. 
Therefore it is that in all schools of human medicine, comparative 
anatomy and comparative ])hysiology are so sedulously taught. 
In ])roportion as the base is widened and deejiened will be the 
extent and durability of the projected structure. 
