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ment of a veterinary school as a branch of the University of 
Pennsylvania. Under the name of “A Plea for Veterinary 
Science,” a long essay is published by him in the Report of the 
State Board of Agriculture of Pennsylvania; and having the 
professional.ability of Prof. J. Law, the plea speaks well in favor 
of the establishment of such a department in common education 
with the curriculum of that well-known medical school. This 
essay lays more stress than has been done before, upon the estab¬ 
lishment of veterinary departments in medical schools, and the 
co-education of the “Andro” and Zoopath, as Mr. Smith re¬ 
invents the names. 
For the benefit of the members of the profession who have 
not received a copy of the “ Plea,” we make an extract from the 
paper of Prof. Law, which will be found of great interest and 
one of the most valuable arguments’in favor of Veterinary 
Science. 
JURISPRUDENCE 
Read before the Montreal Veterinary Medical Association , by D. 
McEachran , F.RJJ.V.S., President. 
Continued from Page 122. 
SOUNDNESS. 
Windgalls, if soft when the opposite leg is lifted to throw 
the weight on the leg, do not constitute unsoundness; but, if 
hard, and accompanied by thickening of the tendon or distension 
of the capsular ligament of the joint, it is unsound. Anchylosis 
of the fetlock of pastern joints constitutes unsoundness. Thick¬ 
ening of the tendons or ligaments at the back part of the leg, 
however slight it may be, must be considered unsound. The 
suspensory ligament is most important; it may be thickened in 
its body or branches. Next in importance is the tendo-perforans; 
next, the metacarpal ligament, and then the tendo-perforatus. 
While an animal may be comparatively useful after injury of the 
two latter, he will seldom or never stand severe galloping after 
either of the forme]* injuries. Osseous tumors of the large or 
small pastern bone, (oss suffraginis or oss coronce) ringbone 
