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bosoms. Who can read the history of the struggle and the 
victory without intense interest? M. Hamont deserves the gra¬ 
titude of the Egyptian veterinarian, and he will be held in 
honourable remembrance by his brethren everywhere. 
The calm, argumentative, unanswerable summary of Mr. 
Mayer’s letters on ‘*The past and present State of the Veterinary 
Profession” will be duly appreciated. We have the satisfaction 
of knowing that he speaks the sentiments of the decided 
majority of his brethren. No radical demolition, under the name 
of sweeping reform, is contemplated by any one who wishes 
well to his profession : but the time is rapidly approaching when 
those simple but extensive changes in our school, which the 
instruction of the 'pupif and the honour of the teachers, and the 
improved state of veterinary science demand, will assuredly be 
made.—We trust that we shall be enabled to resume our post in 
the next number. Y. 
A SKETCH OF THE STATE OF VETERINARY 
MEDICINE IN EGYPT. 
By Professor LaTOUR, of the Abou Zahet Veterinary School. 
The study and the scientific practice of veterinary medicine 
is of very recent date in Egypt. Until with a few years it 
was not known even by name, although human medicine had 
long been established in the piincipal towns, and in the army, 
and had rendered immense service to both. The only persons 
who could be considered as representing the art of curing the 
various animals were the Turkish farriers, compared with whom 
the farriers of France, even in the very rudimentary state of 
veterinary science, may well be regarded as scientific men. The 
ignorance of these people, in fact, surpassed every thing of 
which we can possibly form a conception. It might be truly said 
of them, that they neither perceived nor comprehended the 
nature of any disease, until the moment when the dying patient 
forbad the slightest hope of success. The result also of the 
means which they employed in the treatment of disease could 
never be doubtful, since they were either ineffective ox incendiary. 
They could not retard the approach of death, and they very 
