VETERINARY SESSION OF 1838-9. 
and having recourse to veterinary assistance. The company, 
however, means to take proper care of their stock in health and 
disease, and offers its assistance for destroying the influence of 
empirics of every description. 
We confess that we want farther information on this interest¬ 
ing subject, although we have no kind of doubt that such an as¬ 
surance may, at some future time, be established on terms equally 
satisfactory to the assurers and the assured. 
THE VETERINARIAN, DECEMBER 1, 1838. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. —Cicero. 
The session of 1838-9 commenced at the Veterinary College 
on the 19th ult. Professor Coleman looked in much better 
health than at the close of the preceding session, and, occasion¬ 
ally excited by his subject, gave us manifest and pleasing proof 
of more considerable bodily and mental power than many of us 
can hope to possess at so advanced an age. The lecture com¬ 
menced with the usual history of the horse, and the same rapid 
but talented sketch of the structure and functions of the foot. 
He then proceeded to offer some advice to the student on certain 
subjects connected with his studies. 
'As to comparative anatomy, he said that he had been shame¬ 
fully misrepresented in what he had been accustomed to say on 
this point; and, as there was now pretty plain, and, afterwards, 
direct reference to the writer of this article, he must be forgiven 
if, without violation of all due courtesy to his accuser, he en¬ 
deavours to set this matter right. 
Not many years ago Professor Coleman was accustomed to 
devote a portion of his lecture to a direct attack on the study of 
comparative anatomy. He used to say, 1 dislike comparative 
anatomy, for it leads to comparative physiology, and to compara¬ 
tive pathology, than which nothing can be more mischievous.” 
We never could understand the meaning or the object of the Pro¬ 
fessor; but we saw tlie effect of it in the conduct of the pupil, 
and in the manner of conductintr the lal)Ours of the disscctino- 
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