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the importance of knowing the character of the pulse, and the 
number of its beats per minute, in the different animals you 
are likely to be called upon to treat for disease, as also the 
number of respirations under different circumstances. In 
carrying out this investigation you will have to take into con¬ 
sideration temperature, temperament, age, locality, and the 
state of the alimentary canal, and whether the system is in a 
state of repletion or depletion, and many other important 
peculiarities. 
With this information you will be better prepared to com¬ 
mence the labours of the session than you would be if 
entirely unacquainted with the habits of animals. (i He who 
wishes to take away knowledge must bring knowledge with 
him.” 
Three lectures will be delivered daily, with the exception 
of Saturday, when there will be only two. They will embrace 
Anatomy (general and descriptive), Physiology, Veterinary 
Jurisprudence, and Remarks on Shoeing; also, Pathology, 
Chemistry, Materia Medica, and Pharmacy. There will also 
be Demonstrations daily in the Dissecting-room, and Clinical 
instructions every morning in the Infirmary. 
With regard to the subject of each course of lectures, I 
shall not dwell upon them in detail; your teachers will 
explain these, and also enforce their respective value. Every 
division of your studies is important, but there are two 
which, in my opinion, should occupy much of your at¬ 
tention. I refer to that information which can only be 
obtained in the dissecting-room and in the infirmary. In the 
dissecting-room Anatomy is learned, and there only. This 
idea I early imbibed, and long experience has confirmed the 
correctness of it. With reference to anatomy I would 
strongly advise you to spend as much time at the dissecting- 
table as you possibly can, without interfering with your 
other studies. 
Every veterinary surgeon ought to be as familiar with the 
anatomy of those animals, likely to come under his care, as 
he is with the furniture in his house; and should be able to 
readily find any object or part. He should even understand 
the difference between one organ and another by touch, and 
should also know the variations occasionally met with in 
the same animal. 
General and descriptive anatomy is of so much importance 
that-without it every step you take in the practical part of 
your profession is, as it were, in the dark. It is impossible 
even to judge of the fitness of horses for particular purposes 
without its aid so well as you can with it, but it is, perhaps. 
