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ON PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT. 
twenty years. He has been at his post as often as his avocations 
would permit, and much oftener than was consistent with his 
personal convenience — his administration has been mild and con- 
ciliatory — and he has ever been ready to throw what light he 
could on the subject in debate. As a very old member, and 
having again and again sat under Mr. Sewell’s presidency, the 
Author of this Leader is glad that the Society is at last thinking 
of that which should have been done long ago, with regard to 
an officer and fellow-labourer of so long standing among them. 
We now advert to a most unpleasant subject. We were long 
in determining to insert Mr. Brown’s letter, complaining of 
unprofessional conduct in some of his brethren : but his commu- 
nication was temperately written ; he complained of that which 
ought not to exist among us ; and we recollected obligations of 
long standing, for several interesting communications. We had, 
besides, in one of our last journeys through the midland counties, 
in order to make ourselves fully acquainted with veterinary sta- 
tistics every where, heard, but not from Mr. Brown, nor indeed 
from any veterinary surgeon, but from a practitioner of human 
medicine, a hint of occasional unkind and unprofessional con- 
duct among; certain veterinarians. 
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We are free to express our decided opinion, that when a con- 
sultation is requested respecting a valuable animal, it cannot be 
declined without breach of courtesy, except some proper and 
cogent reason is assigned ; that studiously to avoid the appointed 
hour, and arrive at a time when the brother practitioner will pro- 
bably not be in the way, is unkind and unjust; that when a case 
has been going on well in the hands of one practitioner, and the 
animal is in a state of convalescence, it is the duty of the veterina- 
rian afterwards consulted unequivocally to state so to the owner, 
and to refuse to meddle with the case ; and that it is an act deserv- 
ing of the severest reprobation, if, when the second practitioner has 
arrived at an hour different from that appointed, he presumes, with- 
out consultation with his brother, to take the case into his own 
hands, and orders the horse off at once to his infirmary. 
With the prospects that are now unfolding themselves before 
