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person to blame for mal-practice but themselves; whereas, had 
they employed a “ regular” practitioner, for any error he through 
ignorance or wilfulness might commit, they would have their remedy 
at law, to say nothing of the damage the individual himself would 
or might sustain from such legal prosecution and exposure. From 
what has been said, then — and a great deal more might be said on 
the subject — we find ourselves unable to come to any other con- 
clusion save that of its being both requisite and desirable that 
surgeons and veterinary surgeons should by Parliament be furnished 
with their appropriate “ Bills of Registration.” 
So far have we discussed the question of “ registration ” as 
regards the public. We may now take a cursory glance at 
another side of it, — the side which presents any ground, or right, 
or reason, the medical professions themselves have to seek such 
legislative acknowledgments. There seems to us to be a little in- 
consistency — to say nothing about the fairness or justice of the 
act — for the GOVERNMENT of our country to patronize and by 
parliamentary grants to promote veterinary schools, and yet to 
turn the eleves of such schools, the moment they have received 
their diplomas, adrift into the country to practise, unacknowledged 
until lately by the Legislature, and still unsupported by any further 
protection. After the cost of labour and time and money, students 
of veterinary medicine have been put to, surely they ought to have 
an exclusive or legally protected right to the name they have so 
dearly paid for ! In the face of which, what happens 1 — Why, that 
some farrier comes and takes up his residence next door to the 
regularly educated man, and writes over his gateway, (t Veteri- 
nary Surgeon.” An incident in a farce we once heard of being 
enacted, seems so applicable by way of illustration here, that we 
cannot help narrating it. A physician luxuriating in fame and 
practice, under the name of SANGRADO, had living next door to him 
a poor apothecary, whose name was likewise Sangrado, but upon 
whom the sun of good fortune had hitherto refused to shine ; and 
the consequence was, that while the physician sported his carriage 
and his claret, the apothecary had hard work to make both ends 
meet. One day, however, as the neglected apothecary was rumi- 
nating on his ill fortune, and comparing in his mind his own hap- 
less lot with that of the physician, it on a sudden struck him that 
