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THE VETERINARIAN, JULY 1, 1843. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — C icero 
The veterinary schools on the south and the north of the 
Tweed have, for awhile, suspended their labours, and the ma- 
jority of the pupils have returned to their native homes, to com- 
pare what they have been taught with the impressions of their 
early years, and to commune with their parents and friends as to 
the value of the instructions they have received. 
There is no doubt with regard to one fact, that the tone and 
character of the instructions communicated to the students are 
very materially improved, and the majority of the pupils hold a 
higher rank in veterinary lore, and in general literature, than 
they once did. 
Is this the opinion of the generality of their employers ? We 
fear not. In the estimation of the agricultural world they do 
not sustain the high character which they were accustomed to 
hold, nor are they so often or so exclusively employed in their 
respective neighbourhoods. It is painful, but can now be of 
little service to inquire into the cause of this. The alienation 
that has commenced, and in some situations ripened, between 
the veterinary surgeon and the agriculturist, or, at least, the 
want of confidence in the one and the feeling of unjust aban- 
donment in the other, are circumstances that cannot fail of 
being injurious to both parties. 
It is certainly painful to contemplate the altered situation and 
character of each, and yet the breach might easily be closed, and 
mutual good feeling be readily established. The agriculturist 
must be fully aware, or the least careful observation must con- 
vince him, that the well-instructed veterinary surgeon, who 
studies and suits himself to the changing characters of a certain 
epidemic, saves many more per cent, of cattle and sheep than he 
who contents himself with one recipe, or applies that recipe in 
cases of every different and changing character. The fact is un- 
deniable, that he who has good sense enough to adapt himself to 
