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far does he exceed his manifest duties, and abuse his 

 position as an impartial adviser. 



I have known many dealers so grievously offended 

 by injudicious remarks of veterinary surgeons on the 

 action, power, quality, &c., of the horses they had come 

 to examine merely as to soundness that they have 

 refused ever again to admit of an examination by the 

 same person on their premises. Though I think this 

 going a little too far, I nevertheless consider that any 

 one offering a horse for sale has just ground for com- 

 plaint, if a professional man so far forgets himself, and 

 the limits of his professional duties, as to be guilty of 

 the bad taste of making injurious remarks on points of 

 which he may be a far inferior judge to both seller and 

 purchaser; for a veterinary surgeon is no more justified 

 in arrogating to himself superior judgment of a horse's 

 capabilities than Sir Astley Cooper would have been 

 had he laid claim to superior judgment to the rest of 

 the world of a pugilist, pedestrian, or wrestler, on the 

 strength of being the best anatomist and most learned 

 in the structure and action of the muscles. It is an 

 authority to which neither dealers nor sportsmen, hav- 

 ing neither asked nor accepted it, will ever subject 

 themselves to with impunity. 



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