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acquainted with the functions or uses of the different struc¬ 
tures and organs of the body. Surgery, to make you skilful 
in the treatment of disease by the application of the hand, 
the use of instruments, or by means of topical agents; and 
pathology, to school you in the doctrine of disease. On all 
these subjects, you will have opportunities of listening to 
lectures, which will, so far as may be, be illustrated by care¬ 
fully preserved specimens, by diagrams, and (speaking more 
particularly, of those on the subject of chemistry) by numerous 
and beautiful experiments. In addition to the lectures, there 
are other sources by which you will have ample opportunities 
of gaining knowledge. On the subject of anatomy, for in¬ 
stance, the dissecting room (where you will have the assist¬ 
ance of the demonstrator to guide and instruct) affords all 
that can be desired to impart to you a good and practical 
knowledge of this branch of learning; the subjects for 
dissection are fresh and not expensive, and may be easily 
obtained. And although, perhaps, the English literature 
which treats of the anatomy of domestic animals is scarcely 
so good as we could wish, you have always at hand another 
source of reference to resort to which will make up for the 
deficiency, viz. the aid of one of your teachers. Never forget 
that the most elaborate hook that it would be possible to 
compile would never teach you anatomy ; the structures and 
the peculiar manner in which they are disposed must be 
seen; and the only good method of impressing upon the 
mind the necessary information respecting them is that of 
carefully dissecting them for yourselves; entertain no doubts 
upon this point, but believe me when I tell you that the 
pupil who is to become a good anatomist must be a frequenter 
of the dissecting room. On the subject of pathology, you 
will meet with sources of information of no mean character 
other than those to be regarded with care in this theatre. 
Besides the rich pathological museum of the college, great 
facilities for students to make themselves acquainted with the 
doctrine of disease are offered in the large infirmary which 
forms a part of the institution. It is much to be regretted 
that many of the members of the class do not so fully as 
they might seize upon this advantage; by these men the extent 
of the loss which they impose upon themselves is never 
fairly realised until they are practising the profession for 
themselves. It is when the case presents itself, and they have 
simply their own score of knowledge to fall back upon; then 
comes the recollection of a similar case seen but unheeded at 
the college, and with it hut too late the inward conviction of 
a loss of a golden opportunity. Let me beg of you to shake 
