386 On Cattle Medicine.[June, not been hitherto pursued, and with which, my Ideas, if acted upon, would at no rate interfere. To the influence of ovur agricultural Societies, and or eminent individual cultivators, now happily So numerous in the country, we are chießy in- debted tor the Jate diffusion of the various improvements in gultivation and the care of live Stock. My proposal 15 Simply, that the affair of providing the country with regular-bred 5ur- geons, for the practice of cattle medicine, be immediaiely Ui- dertaken by ihe agricultural Societies; at least, bat the expe- riment be made by Some of the most considerable, eacu SOCIETY engaging a gentleman of that deseription, at a Suficient and respeclable aunual Stipend. The contract may run in Such fonn, that Should the Surgeon's annual emolument trom prac- tice, come Short of the Stipulated Sum, the deficieney Should annuolly be made good by his patrons the SOCIELY.« No persoun to be engaged on any pretence, but who shall have received the uSual education of a Surgeon, and have attended he hios- Pitals the usual length of time. A Selection vi VETERINARY TEXT-BOORS to be made, and the books purchased tor the use ot the Surgeon, but to remain the property of be SOCIETY. "This may consist of Gibson's last edition, 2 vols. Bracket, Bartleit, Osmer, Layard, with our late writers; and La Fosse and Bourgelat'froin the French, with wbatever Way have been pubished Since their me, by authority of the French veterinary Schools. All the members of the Society and their Connetctuons, as far as their influence may extend, 10 eutrust the care oft their diseaszed anmnais to the Surgeon appointed, at a lair and liberal charge for his attendance and wedicines. The Surgeon to keep a regular bhistory of all the cases which Shall coine under his imspecuon, meiuding the presumed cCauses and Symptoms of the diSsease, with the probable werhods of prevention; his mode vl treatment, a particular detail ot the medicines presenbed, tüeit operation, with every relative aud uSelul remark wiich may occur. A clear, written copy of euch vetenbhary wansactivas, to be delivered annualty, aud oy a certain day, to the Society, to remain at their dispozal. This plan i humbly gonceive, it executed on a tolerab!y estenzive Scale, and by men oft a respectable Share of ability In their protessi0n, would m the course of a very lew years, Jeave us pertecyly at ease, as 10 a kuvwledge of tlie diScascsS of our oxeuy, Sheep and wine; a knowledge, which the wbole experience oi my hie serves t9 convince me, is utterly unat- tawable, otherwise ihan by the practical efforts ot regular me- dical men, An Interchange of communications ou this Sub- Ject, by distant Societies, would have ihe excellent ctieet of developing local vartations of diSgease or Conztitution,"and of

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