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Remarks on Regular and Irregular Practitioners. 
By the same. 
I DO not call those persons impostors or pretenders who are 
practising in their true colours as “ farriers” and “ cow-doctors,” 
but those who puff themselves off as “ veterinary surgeons” 
without having passed the ordeal which qualifies them as such. 
During my career, I have met with several sensible and honour- 
able men who have called themselves “ farriers” and “ cow-doc- 
tors,” though such characters are very rare. Would you, or any 
of your readers, dare to trust themselves, when sick, in the hands 
of a surgeon ignorant of anatomy, ignorant of chemistry, and 
ignorant of physiology 1 When the practitioner is ignorant of 
these, his pathology must be deplorable stuff. But horses and 
cattle, some say, have no souls to save. Be it so. It is my opi- 
nion that owners of stock are gradually becoming more and more 
awake to their best interests, and are preferring the regular edu- 
cated veterinarian before the farrier and cowleech. Let us, then, 
be more united among ourselves. The plan, as before suggested, 
of inserting in the county papers, once a year, the names of the 
veterinary surgeons in each respective county, ought to be followed; 
and, likewise, a list of their names sent annually to the judges at 
the county courts in each county. 
DOG-DOCTORING BY DOG-FANCIERS. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Sir, — WILL you allow me to ask your opinion in the following 
cruel case 1 My object in asking it of you is to expose what I con- 
sider cruelty to animals by men calling themselves “ dog-fanciers.” 
Case. 
I had a most beautiful small Scotch terrier, four years and a half 
old ; parturition went hard with her. She burst her water at eleven 
