TESTIMONIAL TO MR. LUCAS. 
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veterinary surgeon, of Lutterworth, by 370 of his friends and 
neighbours, as a testimonial of the high regard in which he 
is held, and also as a mark of their great admiration of his 
professional skill. 1833.” 
At the dinner upwards of ninety noblemen and gentleman 
assembled. Lord John Scott occupied the chair, and was 
supported on either side by Sir Thos. Skipwith, the Hon. 
C. Lennox Butler, J. Broughton Leigh, Esq., and other 
influential gentlemen. Mr. Lucas sat on his Lordship’s 
right hand. The vice-chair was occupied by C. M. Cal- 
decott, Esq. 
After the usual national and patriotic toasts had been 
drunk, his Lordship rose to propose the toast of the evening, 
and in so doing, observed, that he had received letters from 
Mr. Newdegate, Mr. Angerstein, Mr. Harbury, Mr. Fox of 
Lutterworth, Lord Denbigh, and Mr. Crawford, pleading 
that unavoidable circumstances prevented their being pre- 
sent, but all expressing the same sentiments towards Mr. 
Lucas which all who were there felt (applause). It would 
be difficult for him to satisfy himself and them in saying all 
they could wish before the object of their good wishes. Al- 
though they liked a man it was rather awkward to butter 
his face, but still it was difficult to avoid alluding to circum- 
stances in the character of Mr. Lucas which had called forth 
their very handsome and liberal testimonial. The present 
was the day of empiricism and quackery, and those who had 
witnessed a youthful sprig of a student fresh from college 
make his first acquaintance with an animal, and when they 
wished to know what was the matter with it, overwhelm 
them with a torrent of indifferent and unintelligible Greek 
and Latin, would with him appreciate the advantage of consult- 
ing a gentleman having an extended knowledge of the animal 
he had to treat. He had no great objection to see that his 
medical adviser could ride a horse as well as doctor a horse. 
He would not go farther into other branches of his profes- 
sion, because they had all tested him and found him pro- 
ficient. But what a thing it was to be proficient now, 
when there were so many new inventions. Mr. Lucas, he 
had no doubt, was completing his education from day to 
day, progressing with the progress of the age, and had 
turned aside from no new invention he had found worthy 
of notice (applause). He had proved himself a profound, 
sagacious man, and had a great horror of quackery and 
empiricism, and consequently of hypocrisy. They produced 
a plain, sensible, judicious, and honest man, and they came 
there to testify what was their belief in that man, and he 
