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THE VETERINARIAN, JULY 1, 1864. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. —Cicero. 
ON MEDICAL EDUCATION. 
We had hoped to have been able to attempt the fulfilment 
of a promise made by us in our last number, namely, “ freely 
to express our opinions ” on the late annual meeting of the 
profession. But the highly gratifying support we continue 
to receive from our correspondents precludes our entering 
upon the many points both of interest and importance which 
present themselves. To one, and only one, can we now 
allude. It may, however, be said to be the foundation on 
which all the others rest, whilst it is also the crowning stone 
of the edifice, and involves a question very difficult of solu¬ 
tion. It is, if the system of instruction generally adopted 
at our medical schools is the best that can be devised ? May 
it not be that the attendance upon lectures is too rapid, 
time not being given to the mind of the student to digest 
what he has heard on one subject before he is called upon 
to listen to another ? Further, but little inquiry is after¬ 
wards instituted as to the impression made, or the amount 
of information acquired. We have been very much struck 
with some observations lately made by the Archbishop of 
York on this subject, and think them weighty and well 
deserving of consideration. After having stated that the 
system of teaching in the University of Oxford was essen¬ 
tially a mixed system, he went on to say that— 
“ The professors in their several lines were second to those 
of no university; but the staple education of the place 
did not proceed from those professors. There were besides 
a class of persons called tutors, upon whom, in reality, 
devolved the real work of education. The professor took 
