EVERY MAN TO HIS TRADE. 
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was in the next cage with her young ones, was furious in her 
grief ; but after the body was removed, she became tranquil, 
and is now once more as lively as any gay young leonine 
relict might be expected to be. The orphan cubs are quite 
unconscious of their bereavement. Jupiter was one of the 
finest young lions of his age in Europe, and with the lioness 
and her cubs, formed a right royal family. His estimated 
worth in the “ lion market/ 5 was . about £500, so that the 
Gardens have suffered a sharp loss, but his place will soon, 
we trust, be filled by an equally attractive animal. The 
lungs, viscera, &c., were in a most healthy state. Amongst 
the medical gentlemen unremitting in their attention, were 
Mr. Colthurst, Dr. Brittan, Dr. Trotman, Mr. Smerdon, Mr. 
Cross, &c.. Sec., and in their presence the body was opened, 
when the post-mortem examination confirmed the opinion 
formed by Mr. Colthurst, who first saw him, that the cause 
of death was influenza. To whom the lion bequeathed his 
skin we do not know, but his skeleton is to be set up in some 
part of the Gardens. 
EVERY MAN TO HIS TRADE. 
To the Editor of the Bristol Times and Felix Farlefs Journal. 
Sir, — I perceive by a paragraph in your paper of last week, 
that several medical gentlemen were “ unremitting in their 
attention” upon the sick lion, since dead, and you give the 
names of four or five practitioners who were present at the 
last moments, and assisted at the post-mortem , on that 
lamented animal. 
Now, as a veterinary surgeon, I wish to know where the 
line of practice and professional etiquette is to be drawn. Any 
one of those four or five gentlemen would be no doubt indig- 
nant if 1 were to be called in to attend one of their two- 
legged patients, and would of course refuse to meet a vete- 
rinary surgeon in consultation on the case of a human being. 
Have I not therefore good cause to complain of their want of 
consideration and delicacy, in invading my legitimate province. 
My diploma to treat the brute creation is as valid as theirs, 
to practise upon a Christian people, and in the name of every 
sense of equity, I ask them why they intruded on my legiti- 
mate charge. In this particular 1 ought to be able to say 
with Alexander Selkirk, 
“lam monarch of all I survey, 
My right there is none to dispute, 
From the centre all round to the sea, 
I am Lord of the fowl and the brute.” 
