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further to be desired; therefore we can afford to give 

 honest views and truthful expressions as a guide in the 

 selection of a veterinary surgeon. In a country like this, 

 it is therefore to be expected that there are persons of 

 almost every nationality to be found in all our large cities 

 and towns following and practising veterinary medicine and 

 surgery. The success to themselves and satisfaction to 

 their employers we will not individually attempt to trace ', 

 but it is our undoubted conviction, arising from experi- 

 ence and the practice of others, that no school or nation- 

 ality of veterinary science is as perfect as it should be, and 

 its followers therefore partake of the same deficiency, if by 

 intuition the necessity of a good medical education be not 

 seen and acquired in addition thereto. This will be seen 

 without argument, when we find the preponderance in 

 numbers of celebrated veterinarians throughout the world 

 to be M. D.'s in addition to V. S. 



We need not refer to the dashing young student (Cole- 

 man), of Sir Astley Cooper, the great surgeon of England, 

 Percival, the accomplished gentleman and author, and of 

 Professor Gamgee himself, who has in his writings dis- 

 tinctly stated that by a combination of a veterinary and 

 domestic medical education, the most perfect of veterina- 

 rians are produced. Mr. Greaves, a veterinary surgeon of 

 good standing, in Manchester, England, and one of the 

 board of examiners of the students of the Royal College 

 of veterinary surgeons of London, states that many of its 

 graduates do not even know in which leg a horse is lame. 



