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are very unsatisfiictorj, and the time is arrived 

 when tnith must be elicited from you : when 

 practical improvement, whether ofiiciallv or 7/?^- 

 officially, springing- to the light, must supersede 

 mere theory, however plausible and vauntiugly 

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

 h'ge to ask you — First, Whether there is any 

 practical system at all of the veterinary art taught 

 2t the College of which you are professor^ 

 Secondly, Whether, if there be anij system 

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

 ft pupil of yours ^ifcceeding in practice who has 

 Ti^'p^ieicly ado^itf^ It ? • AB\^:^T^''Vs^lN'/»fA 'I nfy^ 

 well known that those whohave 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, glandered and mangy cattle 

 swarm both in the camp and the country, and 

 that 3'ou yourself are ashamed of having pro- 

 mulgated your visionary theories ? These ques^ 

 tions will be most easy for you to answer, if 

 your mind feels its own ability and its own recti- 

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

 ledgement of error ; but you must use mdrc con- 

 ^ncing language tkan y^out %m,rtl2y relativ-e-r 

 thai: it will be more gentJemanlij, I cannot 



doubt. 



I have the honor to be. Sir, 



Your humble Servant, 

 J Subscriber to iVc Oifurd-Strett Jvsti(-Hon 



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