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fering from disease, as if they were but inanimate machines, in 
which some wheel or spring had become worn out or broken, 
have thus been compelled to give place to the educated prac¬ 
titioner. These things being so, it seems to us that, year by 
year, advancement is certain, if care be taken to avoid the 
rocks and quicksands which beset our path. In the lan¬ 
guage of the editor of The Mark Lane Express , we desire that 
“ the student may not merely qualify as a veterinary 
surgeon, but that he may rank as a gentleman. The some¬ 
what dubious position,” says the same writer, “ which he 
may have held, while the farrier was graduating into the 
duty-passed master of medicine, is strengthened every year 
the College reopens. Whatever yet be the type of the 
medical student— f the rough/ or the scapegrace that cari¬ 
caturists have delighted to depict him—it will be the young 
veterinarian’s own fault if he is not recognised as something 
more reputable. It is only the naturally evil spirit that 
grows worse from its association with the horse, while surely 
the proper study of that noble animal should be to only the 
more humanise the dispositions of those who devote them¬ 
selves to his service.” 
To return to the address.. This we are enabled to give in 
another part of our Journal at considerable length, and we 
feel assured that it will be read by all with interest, and by 
many to advantage. May the good advice to the pupil which 
it contains make a lasting impression on his mind, and be 
the means of enabling him rightly to decide respecting the 
things of this life. Humanity was its great theme, and, cor¬ 
rectly considered, its tendency, as a whole, was to elevate 
and ennoble. Parts of it were certainly calculated to excite 
indignation at the cruelties which are yet practised in the 
name of science. 
Very lately we raised our voice in condemnation of vivi¬ 
sections, and, as such, we now prefer to give place to the 
opinions of others. Commenting on the entire lecture, the 
editor of The Daily Telegraph makes the following pointed 
and just remarks : 
“ The horse in this country is certainly a favoured animal. 
