VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XLV. 
No. 540. 
DECEMBER, 1872. 
Fourth Series. 
No. 216. 
Communications and Cases. 
OBSERVATIONS ON ENTOZOA ; BEING THE 
SUBSTANCE OF AN ADDRESS INTRODUC¬ 
TORY TO THE COURSE OF LECTURES ON 
PARASITES AND PARASITIC DISEASES. 
By T. Spencer Cobbold, M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., Professor 
in the Royal Veterinary College. 
So far as I am aware, the special course of instruction 
which I have now the pleasure to inaugurate has not hitherto 
been attempted in any school or college devoted to the heal¬ 
ing art. It is true that your Principal, Professor Simonds, 
has for many years past insisted upon the importance of your 
acquiring a practical acquaintance with the subject of 
Parasitism; and he has, moreover, in his various lectures at 
this institution and elsewhere, devoted much time to the ex¬ 
position of those forms of cattle disease which are generally 
acknowledged to be due to parasites. 
Not only so. Mr. Simonds and myself, some years since, 
conducted a series of carefully devised experiments at this 
College, the results of which were acknowledged to be not 
merely of scientific interest, but as carrying with them prac¬ 
tical issues of high value in relation to the public health. It 
cannot fail to enhance the importance of these experimental 
researches in your estimation when I tell you that they were 
instituted with the approval of the Governors of the Royal 
Veterinary College, and carried out by the aid of funds ex¬ 
pressly supplied to Mr. Simonds by the Royal Agricultural 
Society on the one part, and by donations awarded to myself 
by the Council of the British Association for the Advance- 
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