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the hospitals to train for nurses, and find it a 

 great success and an immense help to the surgeon. 

 Yet more the pity that there is no class in the 

 College of Veterinary Surgeons where grooms 

 could go through a course of nursing the sick and 

 afflicted horse. A class of this sort would bring 

 the intelligent men to the front ; they could pass 

 an examination, and receive a certificate qualify- 

 ing them as fit to take charge of sick horses. 

 The man holding such certificate would be of 

 great value to the veterinary surgeon and gentle- 

 men who employed them. They would not be 

 the class of men whom we too often find in the 

 position of coachmen and grooms, and, because 

 they are ignorant, cause a stigma to be cast upon 

 the whole fraternity. I am bound to say with 

 Tom Hood, that ^' evil is wrought by want of 

 thought as much as want of heart." 



