628 MU. spoonek's introductory lecture 
feeling his mind expanded, and being better prepared for the 
practice of his profession"^. 
My task in the course of these lectures will be confined to the 
anatomy and physiology of these animals, and as preparatory 
to other instructions on their diseases by another gentleman, 
highly competent to the task, and who is ever industrious in 
the pursuit of his profession. I allude to Mr. Sewell, whose 
intention it is, in his next course of lectures, to enter more fully 
than he has hitherto done into the consideration of the diseases 
of these animals. He is a man of whom 1 need say little in order 
to impress your minds with deep respect for him ; for he is al¬ 
ways at the post of duty, always ready to impart instruction, 
and the kindness and urbanity of whose manner every pupil will 
gratefully acknowledge—[Mr. Sewell at this moment entered the 
theatre, and was received with much applause].—The demon¬ 
strations relating to the horse will be conducted, as usual, in 
another place, and there you will have an opportunity of prepar¬ 
ing yourselves for the still superior instruction to be derived from 
the scientific lectures of Professor Coleman. By him, and by 
Mr. Sewell, the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of that 
noble animal the horse will still be satisfactorily taught, while 
here or at the College I shall be employed in the humbler but 
still important office of laying that foundation on which the 
noble superstructure of your future studies and acquirements, 
and usefulness and reputation, must be built. No portion of in¬ 
struction hitherto given will be neglected, while that will now 
be added which alone was wanting to enable the veterinary sur¬ 
geon to occupy with credit to himself and advantage to his em¬ 
ployers his proper station in life. Happy will they be who are 
now employed in linking together the various constituents of 
veterinary science hitherto disunited, and laying broader and 
deeper the foundations of our noble art. If I might venture on 
a description of that which your acquirements and our profession 
ought to be, I would liken them to a noble cone, which has ana¬ 
tomy and physiology as its basis, pathology and practical sur¬ 
gery as its centre, and chemistry as its apex. Without the com¬ 
bination of all of these, and in their just and full proportions, the 
massive structure, let it tower as high as it may, would lose all 
its grandeur, its beauty, and its stability.” 
Mr. Spooner then proceeded to say, that, considering how soon 
* There is a gentleman who, as a practitioner and a writer, trod this path 
before Mr. Youatt, and to whom the veterinary pupil for many a year to 
come will acknowledge himself deeply indebted,—]\Jr. Blaine, the demon¬ 
strator to Sainbel, the author of the “ Veterinary Outlines,” and the father 
of Canine Pathology.—Y. 
