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candidate, exhibiting the full extent of his professional education, 
which he filled up, and appended to, the signature of “ William 
Duncan and thereafter delivered it to the President of the 
College, pretending that he was the person whose signature was 
attached to the document. Cumming afterwards attended and 
passed the usual examination appointed by the College, on the 
4th Dec. 1844, and, by representing that he was the William 
Duncan represented in the certificate, he obtained a diploma in 
Duncan’s name, qualifying him to practise surgery and pharmacy, 
which he immediately delivered to Duncan, to be used by him as 
a diploma in his favour, and which was accepted by Duncan for 
this purpose. The parties were apprehended in January last. 
The indictment set forth, that Duncan and Cumming, in carrying 
out their conspiracy, were both in Edinburgh ; but no evidence 
was adduced to shew that this had been the case in regard to 
Duncan, and he was consequently acquitted. Cumming was found 
guilty, and sentenced to one year’s imprisonment. It is impossible 
to say to what extent these frauds have been committed. 
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Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — Hon. 
On the Laws and Practice of Horse Racing, &c. By the 
Honourable Captain Rous, R.N. London: Baily, Royal 
Exchange Buildings, London, 1850. Small 8vo, pp. 127. 
Should the question be asked, what have veterinary surgeons 
to do with racing I — we may answer by reversing the same ques- 
tion, and ask, how would horse-racing fare without veterinary 
surgeons ! Veterinary science may be said to be estimated by the 
public at some such ratio as its principal object of treatment, the 
horse, fetches a high or a low price in the market, or the worth he 
is nominally set at by his owner. Nobody needs to be informed 
of the enormous sums occasionally paid for race-horses : hunters 
fetch their hundreds ; but racers command their thousands of pounds 
sterling. This is not, it is true, in the latter case, owing to any 
abstract worth or value the horses possess of themselves as mere 
fast runners ; but it is contingent on vast sums of money wagered 
