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I merely contend, that it is no more necessary fora veterinary sur- 
geon to be skilled in the blacksmith’s business than it is for him 
to be acquainted with that of the saddler’s ; and as to the instance 
adduced of Mr. J. Field’s modus operandi, nothing could be more 
honourable to a man engaged in the practice of his profession. 
However, I beg to disagree with him on one point, and that is, 
when he expresses a doubt “ that veterinary surgeons should be 
connected with the literary world;” and have only to say in reply, 
that in my humble opinion, I conceive it to be as necessary for 
them to be liberally educated as it is for the practitioner of human 
medicine ; and I opine that until such be the case, generally, the 
profession will not be respected as the nature of their calling de- 
mands ; and that such may be the case is the earnest desire of 
A devoted Friend to the Veterinary Art. 
P.S: — I stated in my last letter, that I did not mean to apply the 
term literary in its full acceptation, as I believe it has too extensive 
a meaning to be applied to any profession generally. 
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Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — Hon. 
A Manual of Pharmacy for the Student of Veterinary 
MEDICINE : containing the Substances employed at the Royal 
Veterinary College, with an Attempt at their Classification , 
and the Pharmacopoeia of that Institution. By W. J. T. Mor- 
TON, Lecturer on Materia Medica. 4th edit. pp. 382. Long- 
man and Co. London. 
As will appear from the above, Mr. Morton’s “Manual” has 
reached its fourth edition ; and most deservedly so, since, without 
it, students of veterinary medicine, in these reformed days of 
scrutiny into their qualifications, would find themselves a good 
deal bothered and troubled to search out the useful information it 
contains elsewhere. So far as our school of instruction goes, ve- 
terinary pharmacy may, indeed, be said to have taken its rise in 
Mr. Morton’s Manual. Bartlett published a sort of veterinary 
pharmacopoeia, and so did White ; and to these Bracy Clark’s 
“ Reformed Pharmacopoeia for Horses” succeeded : the two former, 
however, to professional people, were of no value, and the latter 
was too restricted for general use. The “ Manual ” has proved 
