326 THE IMPHOVED ART OF FAillllERY. 



ON INHUMAN TREATMENT OF THE HORSE, 



An eminent author makes the following remarks 

 on the inhumanity practised towards the horse by 

 those into whose hands he often falls, and with which 

 we shall conclude this portion of our work. 



" The object of our profession is to mitigate or re- 

 move the pains and diseases of those who have, al- 

 though our slaves, common feeling with us. Can we 

 honestly, heartily, successfully employ ourselves in 

 this, if we do not sympathise with them ? if we do not 

 love to see them happy, and contemplate their suffer- 

 ings with regret ? Can the brute who regards them 

 as mere machines, devoid of rights, placed without the 

 pale of justice, created merely for our purposes, and 

 to be sacrificed without crime to our caprices ; can he 

 by possibility, so identify himself with his profession, 

 as to neglect no opportunity to mitigate pain, and to 

 spare no exertion to increase enjoyment ? This is the 

 duty, and ought to be the pride and pleasure, of every 

 veterinary surgeon. Regard to reputation, and sense 

 of duty to our employer, are powerful principle of ac- 

 tion; but there is another as powerful, which the 

 scenes we daily witness, and the means by which we 

 live, should form and establish sympathy with the 

 feelings of our patients. Wliat ! with the feelings 

 of brutes ? Yes — brutes as we call them, but who 

 possess, in common with us, attention and memory, 

 and imagination, and reason, and ideas of reflection, 

 and feelings of gratitude, and truth, and duty ; in fact, 

 all those intellectual and moral powers differ from 

 ours, not in kind, but merely in degree. 



" Dare we trace the education of the veterinary sur- 

 geon as far as humanitv is concerned ? See him at 



