THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. LIII. 
No. 636. 
DECEMBER, 1880. Fou ' th ®f Q ies ’ 
JN 0. oLJu . 
Communications and Cases. 
LECTURES ON THE PRACTICE OF VETERINARY 
MEDICINE AND SURGERY.—HIPPOPATHO- 
LOGY. 
By Professor Wm. Robertson, F.R.C.V.S, 
Lecture 1. 
Gentlemen, —You are aware that in the study of medicine, 
using these terms in their widest sense, that it has been found 
both necessary and convenient, alike for teacher and taught, 
to consider, individually and in a separate manner, the various 
subjects or branches of knowledge bearing directly or indi¬ 
rectly on the acquirement of that sum total of knowledge 
which has for its ultimate end the equipment of the indi¬ 
vidual as a sanitary or therapeutic expert — as one who, 
according to our present-day ideas, is sufficiently qualified to 
be specially employed in the prevention and cure of disease. 
In like manner, and for a similar purpose or end, the more 
purely and specifically professional or medical work and 
study has been dealt with; while there is little doubt that, 
as time moves on and advances are made both in the science 
of medicine and in the public estimate of and demand for its 
employment, a further and, it is to be hoped, a fuller and 
more perfect and correct division of study and labour will be 
adopted. 
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