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are very unsatisfactory, and the time is arrived 

 when truth must be elicited from you : when 

 practical improvement, whether officially or vn- 

 oriicialiv, springing to the light, must supersede 

 mere theory, however plausible and vauntingiy 

 exhibited on the dead subject. — I claim a privi- 

 lege to ask you — First, Whether there is My 

 practical system at all of the veterinary art taught 

 tt the College of which you are professor? 

 Second iy, Whether, if there be any system 

 taught, is there one, or how many, instances of 

 a pwp'i\ of yours succeeding in practice who has 



well known that those w 'ho have succeeded, have 

 been those only, who were bold and ingenious 

 enough to abandon that system, and to form and 

 act upon one of their own ? Fourthly, Is it not 

 true that lame, ghmdered and mangy cattle 

 swarm both in the camp and the country, and 

 that you yourself are ashamed of having pro- 

 mulgated your visionary theories ? These ques-< 

 tions will be most easy for you to answer, if 

 jour fftttid feels its own ability and its own recti- 

 tude ; for next to being faultless, is the acknow- 

 ledgement of error; but you must use more con- 

 vincing language ikan pur wtrthtf relative- — 

 that it will be more gaiilcrnanly, I cannot 



doubt. 



I have the honor to be. Sir, 



Your humble Ser.ant, 

 J Subscriber to the Oxford-Street JnstHrfiom 



Ridden, Printer, Steel's Court* Lee's Mews, Grosveuor-Sq., 



