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SESAMOTDITIS. 
Thirdly , veterinary medical jurisprudence is another in- 
ducement. 
I cannot refrain, in common with others, from making a 
passing remark, and from expressing my regret at the occur- 
rence, of late years, of serious collisions in veterinary evidence, 
within our public law courts, between the highest scientific 
authorities ; yet I do most sincerely believe without the 
slightest blame either morally or professionally being attached 
to any individual. 
As a chartered professional body, it behoves us to be much 
more industrious than hitherto in accumulating and chro- 
nicling all the great leading facts as landmarks. The public 
have a right to expect from us a much larger array of de- 
monstrable facts. We have not as yet fairly earned by 
scientific contributions the claim of a cordial shake of the 
hand from the members of the sister science. We are too 
young, and have not contributed our quota of recorded facts 
bearing upon medical science. 
I must remind the rising generation of veterinary surgeons 
that familiarising themselves by minute dissection (not by 
reading) with the true normal structures, and promptly avail- 
ing themselves of their almost unlimited scope for post-mortem 
examinations, the object of their pursuit has only to be seen 
to be at the same time within their grasp. 
It is their mission by the exercise of their talents and 
energies to reap well merited laurels, and thus materially 
to extend the present limits which seem to bound the 
anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the lower animals. 
Then, and not till then, can they take their place as a 
matter of right by the side of their compeers in the science 
of medicine. 
There yet remains an immense unexplored field to attract 
and captivate the young scientific veterinarian, and if, besides 
concentrating his talents on the points I have alluded to, he 
has the command of physical strength, his chance of success 
far outstrips the young surgeon of human medicine in finding 
out and bringing to the surface Nature’s secrets. All hail ! 
“ the vast renown 1” 
But to return to the subject of sesamoiditis. It is fresh in 
my memory that some of the horse causes, to which I have 
alluded, have within the last two or three j^ears involved the 
question of the existence of this disease in a concealed form. 
From conversations which I have had with several leading 
provincial practitioners, I am satisfied that this formidable 
leg disease is pretty well understood in the provinces, but I 
complain that it has not been duly recognized by many of 
