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LETTER ON PROFESSOR DICK’S PRACTICE. 
solicited at bis bands “is in some measure the property of bis pu- 
pils !” Now, this appears rather odd, for in other diseases be not 
only enters into the minutire of symptom, but of treatment also. 
Will his pupils thank him for thus giving away their property] 
Pardon me, gentlemen, if T draw loo hasty conclusions from the 
Professor’s reply, when I state that it looks to me like an evasion 
unworthy of one holding so responsible a situation. I should have 
given the Professor credit for greater candour, had he replied some- 
what after this fashion — “ I sell my information at the rate of four- 
teen guineas each pupil ; and what you may have seen under the 
head of ‘ Cases occurring in the Edinburgh Veterinary College’ I 
meant as advertisements for that purpose.” Judging from the 
numerical order of which, it appears that the means possessed by 
students of that establishment are far from being “ limited,” and from 
the manner he treats a disease hitherto considered by the best 
authorities as incurable , T cannot look upon them as “ defective.” 
Trusting the Professor will no longer refuse my reasonable re- 
quest, and by that means avoid “the risk, however small, of being 
charged with quackery,” is the wish of one who has the honour of 
subscribing himself, 
Gentlemen, your’s, &c. 
Waltham, near Melton Mowbray, 
Leicestershire, Dec. 13. 
LETTER ON PROFESSOR DICK’S PRACTICE. 
From Thomas Wells, M.R.C.V.S. 
To the Editors of 11 The Veterinarian .” 
Gentlemen, 
It has occurred to me, as I have no doubt it also has to many 
other members of the veterinary profession — (Mr. Fisher has al- 
ready observed upon it) — that the practice at the Edinburgh Vete- 
rinary School certainly must be a very successful one, and quite 
sufficient to make us poor provincial Vets, vexed and dissatisfied 
with ourselves for not being able to treat cases successfully, which 
at the Edinburgh School appear to yield readily to treatment. In 
the first report published by Professor Dick, in your March num- 
ber of the present year, cases of open joint, canker , inflammation 
of the absorbents, and broken wind, are spoken of as of every-day 
occurrence; and one is led to suppose cured as easily as a common 
