638 bourgelat's introductory lecture. 
increased until she was scarcely able to eat, and was rapidly 
losing flesh. I caused one of the pieces of wood through which 
the oesophagus pipe is usually passed to be made with an aper¬ 
ture sufficiently large for my hand to pass. The cow being placed 
against a wall, and her head tolerably secured by a rope placed 
round her horns, and drawn up by a pulley passing over a beam, 
and the mouth-piece well fixed, I passed my hand into the 
fauces, and distinctly felt a round body, moveable, and at¬ 
tached by a cord, the extremity of which I could not get at,—in 
fact, a polypus. I seized it with a pair of strong forceps with 
deeply roughened blades, and attempted the removal by torsion. 
The third turn being completed, the pedicle gave way, and a 
polypus nearly half a pound in weight was brought out. 
THE VETERINARIAN , NOVEMBER 1 , 1831 . 
Nc quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.—C icero. 
In looking over an old French work, we found the lecture which 
Bourgelat, sixty years ago, used to deliver to his pupils at the 
commencement of his course, and which he caused to be printed 
and distributed among them, as containing, in his estimation, the 
grand principles of veterinary practice. It is a curiosity, as em¬ 
bodying the sentiments of the first professor of the French 
school on the most important points of theory and practice; 
and giving us a notion of what the best veterinarians thought 
and inculcated in the infancy of our profession, and, indeed, 
twenty years before the first English school had existence. Se¬ 
parate from this, there is so much good stuff in it, and so applica¬ 
ble to the present moment, when all our schools are or ought to 
be opened, that we are assured our readers will thank us for pre¬ 
senting them with a literal translation of it.— Edit. 
Disease is the fatal lot of all organized beings: man, ani¬ 
mals, and plants are alike subject to it. 
The life of the animal, or of man, may be perfect or imperfect. 
In the first case he is in health, in the second case lie is diseased. 
