THE VETERINARY RECORD, AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. EDITED BY PROFESSORS SPOONER, SIMONDS, AND MORTON, ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE. VOLUME I. ILLUSTRATED BY ENCRAVINGS AND WOODCUTS. "PRÆSTAT IN OMNIBUS EXPERIENTIAM STRICTE PREMERE; UT ET, NATURÆ LONDON: PUBLISHED BY LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1815. Soc. 1631 e. 1. VOL. I.] THE VETERINARY RECORD, &c. JANUARY 1845. [No. 1. ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE. THE Medical Session commenced at this Institution on Monday, November 11th, 1844. The Introductory Address was delivered by Mr. Morton. The theatre was unusually full, and many practitioners of veterinary medicine were present. The lecturer, after offering some admonitory advice to the student, and placing before him the course of study to be adopted, proceeded cursorily to review the so-called elements of the ancients, fire, air, earth, and water. After describing the constituents of the three last named, and exhibiting their characteristic properties, he shewed how they exist in organic substances, making up the varied principles found both in vegetables and animals, the atmosphere being the mysterious bond that connects the two kingdoms of nature, the organic and inorganic; one of the links of the chain that binds Prometheus to the rock. From the air plants derive their sustenance and support; on these the herbivora feed, which become food for the carnivora, and thus the animal organism generates not a single principle. The elementary substances are first absorbed and assimilated by vegetables, whence result certain compound bodies designated proximate principles; and among these proteine and its compounds occupy a prominent place. According to Professor Mulder, its discoverer, proteine is found in various parts of plants-in the roots, stems, leaves, and fruit, and also the sap; and in three different conditions, one soluble in water, the other insoluble in this menstruum, and the third soluble in alcohol. Its empirical formula is C40 H62, N10, O12 Thus shewing what a large number of atoms are congregated to |