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VETERINARY EXAMINERS’ BOARD. 
inalienable rights. We do record our public, our solemn protest 
against the repetition of this injustice. We call upon this newly 
admitted examiner, and upon all his brethren, and upon the gover- 
nors who appointed them, to answer before a higher tribunal than 
their own, that of public opinion, for the wrong which they are sys- 
tematically continuing to do us. To what extent can the exami- 
nation of the human surgeon or physician go ? To the facts of 
anatomy, and the general principles of physiology and pathology. 
And shall we be told that, in the improved state of the veterinary 
art, there are not many of us who are better acquainted with the 
minute anatomy of the patient on which we daily attend than the 
surgeon can possibly be, and having a thousand times clearer 
conception of the nature of the various functions, and the influ- 
ence of surrounding objects on the healthy or unhealthy dis- 
charge of them? 
But we refrain. We record our public, our solemn protest 
against the repetition of this injustice. We challenge our op- 
ponents to the calm discussion of the question in all its bearings. 
We ask, what is it that renders us unworthy of all intercourse 
with our professors, and all association with others in the discharge 
of the duties of the Examiners’ board ? And while we pause for 
a reply, we will with fuller earnestness devote ourselves to the 
interests of the Association, and the improvement of the art which 
we profess. 
We congratulate ourselves and our readers on the accession of 
an excellent, and, we trust, frequent correspondent, Nimrod. His 
practical observation and experience will put to the test and fairly 
decide on the merits of many of our theories. The grand ques- 
tion is, How does the thing work ? Are our supposed remedies 
and our operations so uniformly beneficial as we sometimes fancy 
them to be? We shall be proud to hear from him as often as his 
fancy prompts. We shall submit, with as good grace as we can, 
to the raps on our knuckles which he may sometimes bestow ; 
and, on the other hand, we know enough of his good-nature and 
love of fair-play to be assured that he will not be offended if we 
occasionally retaliate, when we have a fair chance. 
