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dog 1 ; or he has had no opportunity of fairly studying* the charac¬ 
ter of this most protean of all diseases in the animal in which it 
originates. He that has human feelings can appreciate the dis¬ 
tress of the practitioner placed in such a situation; a distress 
scarcely less than that of the relatives of the patient. If these 
lectures were valuable in no other point of view than as un¬ 
folding the history, characteristic symptoms, and post-mortem 
appearances of this dreadful disease, they would not be de¬ 
livered altogether in vain. 
To the veterinary pupil,—to whom I owe every obligation— 
whose kind and marked attention to similar lectures in an humbler 
theatre, has cheered me under many a disadvantage, and much 
open, and more secret opposition, and perhaps excited and 
nourished higher views and purposes, and whose uniform pro¬ 
priety of behaviour I will gratefully, proudly acknowledge even 
here, and before such an assembly, for such pupils would not dis¬ 
grace even this institution—to the veterinary pupil I will only say, 
that these lectures will, as heretofore, embrace the anatomy and 
diseases of all his patients. This is a point of immense import¬ 
ance to him; for the diseases of domestic animals are as different 
in each as is their conformation, and the appliances and modes 
of treatment are as different; and no study, however perfect, of 
the horse, will prepare for practice on the maladies of other 
domestic animals. Three grains of corrosive sublimate will de¬ 
stroy any dog; ten are often given to the horse as a tonic, and 
eighteen drachms have been given to the ox without the slightest 
effect. The smallest portion of emetic tartar will puke a dog; two 
drachms have been during many successive days given to the 
horse with good effect; two ounces will only produce a slight 
diuretic effect on him, and will not produce any effect on the ox. 
Justice to himself, his employers, and his patients will demand that 
the veterinary surgeon shall have studied the veterinary art in all 
its branches. The elucidation of the veterinary art, fairly and fully 
and honestly in all its branches, will be the object of the lecturer. 
To the man of liberal education, and especially to the proprietor 
of horses and cattle, these lectures, however imperfectly delivered, 
will be pregnant with useful instruction. They will lay the 
foundation for that which his experience must perfect,—a compe¬ 
tent knowledge of the exterior of the horse and of cattle; those 
points, those conformations of different parts, on which the beauty 
and the utility of the animal materially depend. Although 
practice alone, and the long-formed habit of being with them, 
and studying them, and trying them, can form the good judge of 
the horse or of cattle, yet there are rules, proportions, positions, 
conformations, and connexions, which are easily understood, w hich 
will immediately guide to a considerable extent, and on w hich 
