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be followed by indigestion, extrication of gas, and tympanitis of 
the stomach, and thus necessarily aggravate the previous dis¬ 
ease. 
If the inflammation has spread, and fever exists, it will be 
prudent to bleed and physic : but the disease has now assumed 
a new character; it is catarrh, or something worse, and the 
treatment to be pursued will be considered under the proper 
heads. 
OZENA IN CATTLE. 
Of Ozena in cattle I have seen but few cases, and they seemed 
to belong to that periodical coryza—a nasal gleet, with the 
cure of which nature has a great deal more to do than the ve¬ 
terinary surgeon. 
GLANDERS IN CATTLE. 
Of Glanders in cattle I know nothing; that which approached 
the nearest to it was a case of chronic coryza, that ultimately 
yielded to medical treatment. I do not, however, think that this 
point is yet fairly settled ; it is a very important one, and an 
interesting field for research and experiment lies before you. So 
far as cattle and sheep are concerned, I stand before you the first 
public lecturer. South of the Tweed, who has condescended sys¬ 
tematically to notice their diseases. There is an honourably 
splendid exception at Edinburgh ; the instructions of Mr. Dick, 
however, have hitherto been, but I trust will not always be, con¬ 
fined to his class. Sometimes I feel oppressed by a consciousness 
of the disadvantageous situation in which I am placed. Well, 
gentlemen, I can only give you the experience of an individual, 
but I may have the happiness to enlist you in that cause in 
which I am labouring,—the improvement of this most important 
and shamefully-neglected branch of our profession, the know¬ 
ledge and treatment of the diseases of cattle, sheep, and every 
domesticated animal; and my successor in this—chair I must 
not call it, although I will venture to predict, that when our 
undervalued, degraded profession has a little more worked its 
way, a chair of veterinary medicine will be established here, and 
will never be removed while the University of London stands on 
its basis—my successor, I say, in this situation, will have a 
pleasanter and a more satisfactory task to perform. Gentlemen, 
this is a subject for your serious investigation. 
FARCY IN CATTLE. 
We have no case of glanders, according to the hitherto-acknow¬ 
ledged acceptation of the term, but we have cases of that which 
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