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PLEA IN FAVOUR OF THE VETERINARIAN. 
and more especially those who are favoured with great practical 
opportunities , to feed the little nursling better . If, kind sirs, 
you were ignorant that such a being existed, no blame could 
be attached; but well I know that you look anxiously at the 
commencement of every month “ whom to behold but thee 
then to find her with an earnest desire to learn, that she may 
the better instruct, and still not feed ! Nothing will be lost to 
the individual who makes known to the veterinary world an 
improvement in practice, or an extraordinary case—all will be 
gain. Our employers, should they chance to see in a public jour¬ 
nal a discovery of his veterinarian, will the more appreciate his 
talent, and his generous desire for the welfare of his profession. 
Another great and decided drawback occasioned by the senior 
practitioner not contributing cases is, that it tends very mate¬ 
rially to check any desire the junior one may have in so doing. 
I am not surprised at this, if he has a proper sense of modest 
diffidence : he dreads being thought vain and forward, so that 
for want of example he is prevented communicating to his bre¬ 
thren, senior and junior, information instructive and pleasing. 
I do hope, then, that our elders will be induced to such gene¬ 
rous doings; favours which will be duly appreciated by myself, 
and the rest of the profession, enabling them at the close of 
their professional career to look with more pleasure on the 
retrospect.—I have the honour to be. Sirs, 
Your obedient Servant, 
James Kerr, V. S. 
MR. YOUATT’S VETERINARY LECTURES, 
DELIVERED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. 
LECTURE VII. 
Glanders—its Symptoms and Post-mortem Appearances . 
I acknowledge, gentlemen, that I enter on the subject of 
my present lecture with some reluctance. The disease of which 
I have to speak has been recognized from the time of Hippocrates 
of Cos, and few modern veterinary writers have given a more 
accurate and complete account of its symptoms than we find in 
the works of the “ Father of Medicine.” Three-and-tvventy hun¬ 
dred years have rolled on since then, and we are not agreed as to 
the tissue primarily affected, nor as to the actual nature of the 
diseo.se. As to the cure of glanders, we know nothing about it. 
We hear of many specifics: some of them have their day—but a 
