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tion. Long before his admission as a student at 

 the Veterinary* College, he had laboured to 

 perfect himself in the profession he chose to Fol- 

 low, lie, as well as Captain Blagravc, admits 

 jour anatomical skill, but with respect to the 

 adaptation of many parts of the animal he differs 

 from you wholly. It was by continually witness- 

 rng that he learned to avoid rouR errors — 

 from perpetually observing your practice, he 

 was in many instances taught to detect its fal- 

 lacy — and, it was by following the dictates of 

 his own reason that he became experienced enough 

 to act in diametrical opposition to your 

 practice. 



* Tf Mr. Goodwin had gained no more knowledge from 

 his own application than he acquired at the College, he would 

 be a very unlit person to trust with the life or limbs of any 

 animal above the rank of a mill-hnrse. Nothing but a long, 

 varied and extensive practice could have made his abilities 

 what they are — could have placed him so very far out of the 

 reach of such clyster-pipes of the faculty as your -worthy advo- 

 cate- Indeed every rational, mind must be convinced how de- 

 plorably deficient in system *he veterinary art is as taught at 

 the College and practised in the army : and especially if they 

 consider how unlikely it is for the most ingenious man to be- 

 come suficiently acquainted with the 'name and diseases of the 

 horse in one year jo undertake the management of a regiment! 

 Look a;ound at these sagacious professors — look at the increas- 

 ing progress of Tameness and disease in the army, and then 

 tell me what is the cause? /answer, ignorance and A 



WANT OF SYSTEM ! 



