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racters to elevate theirs. Should we, by so acting, be doing justice 
to ourselves and the public ! No date that you could commence 
from would have the effect of excluding them. Numbers of them 
are as old as they are ignorant. Their age increases their pre- 
sumption. Suppose you date back twenty years ; — you would 
shut out those undiplomaed who, we will say, are really deserving 
men, that have commenced practice within that period. Since, 
then, we cannot by this plan do justice to all, I would, with defer- 
ence, suggest we rather leave it to the onward march of improve- 
ment and the increasing intelligence of the people. By rendering 
ourselves more and more deserving their confidence and support, 
endeavour to enlist the sympathies of the public press in our cause. 
When a flagrant case does occur, let some professional man in the 
neighbourhood expose it, by devoting a little time in writing and 
forwarding his opinions to the editor of the nearest newspaper 
whose columns are generally open to public grievances. And in 
order that the magistrates and judges of our local courts should be 
enabled to ascertain who are the qualified members of the profes- 
sion, let us in each district (as have been proposed before by some 
gentlemen) advertise, at least once a-year, in the local papers, the 
names of the members there residing, with the date of their di- 
plomas. 
These are my views upon the subject : if they are worthy of 
adoption, I leave them in your hands to forward as you think fit. 
I had intended to have made some few remarks upon another por- 
tion of your article, but I fear I shall trespass too much on your 
time and space ; I will therefore leave it until a future time and 
opportunity. In conclusion, 
I beg to remain your’s respectfully. 
The Editor of The Veterinarian. 
*** In the course of years, as veterinary science progresses, and 
as the public — the agricultural more especially — come to be more 
alive to its advantages and intelligent to the merits of its practi- 
tioners, there can be little doubt but the evil will work its own 
cure : we are much afraid, however, as times are going with the 
farmers, it will take many years to effect this cure. Legislative 
enactment would cut the period short ; and, besides, would be 
attended with this advantage, — that, as soon as they found them- 
selves without the pale of the law, there would be an end to the 
propagation of the professors of farriery ; they, or their sons at 
least, would then, of necessity, all become veterinary surgeons. 
We shall be glad to hear further from Mr. Gregory on the same 
subject— Ed. Yet. 
