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EDINBURGH VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
I attended, and found that the external wound was com- 
pletely and perfectly closed. Adhesion had, however, "Yaken 
place between that part of the uterus in which the incision 
was made, and a portion of the contiguous intestine. Suppu- 
ration had begun here, and a small abscess had consequently 
formed, from which 1 could trace a sinus leading towards 
the intestine. I have little doubt, that had the animal been 
allowed to live, the matter would have discharged itself 
through the bowels. The right ovary was destroyed. 
THE EDINBURGH VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
To the Editors of the c Veterinarian / 
Gentlemen, — For a long time I have observed with 
regret, a feeling anything but friendly towards the Edin- 
burgh Veterinary College and its graduates; and 1, having 
apparently the misfortune to be of the latter class, most 
assuredly feel aggrieved by the manner in which we are 
spoken of in what ought to be the bond of union between 
all veterinary surgeons in this country — “ the Veterinarian 
I do not wish for a moment to show how much we are 
wronged, but would merely confine myself to the “ why and 
the wherefore such things should be. 5 ’ 
I need not go any further back than your last October 
number — the first put into my hands since my return from 
the Crimea — for proof of this uncalled for and unwarranted 
animosity ; for certainly, in my opinion and in that of others 
also, it merits no other appellation. 
It has been long known amongst us, that the title of 
Royal ” has been, and is now, denied to our college by 
our London brethren : indeed, many of them go so far as to 
assert that we have no college, are not veterinary surgeons, 
and are unqualified to practise as such, in fact, that we are 
no better than quacks. 
All these things we pass over in silence as unworthy of 
notice, except the first — the royalty of the affair. 
In an article on the adulteration of food and drugs, Vete- 
rinarian, page 599, inserted between brackets is the wish 
expressed, li that none but those who had graduated as 
M.R.C.V.S. should be allowed to assume the name of vete- 
rinary surgeon.” Now as affairs at present stand, we may 
entertain a shrewd guess as to whom this is mainly meant to 
