MR. CARTWRIGHT’S REPLY TO MR. FISHER. 
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As to his duties in the dissecting-room (and here he is so liberal 
as to give me great credit for attention), every one knows how they 
were performed, and I believe there was not a student so 
“ Well prepared by ignorance and sloth” 
as he was. I think that I can justly state, that he had only a 
share in one subject during the whole of the last session, and which 
he did not work at more than a day or two ; and if I say he was 
dissecting at any thing more than six days in six months, it was 
really beyond the mark. Here it will be observed, that there was 
no danger of my “ laying hands” on his subjects. 
When weekly examinations took place, he was never half the 
time there; but this is easily accounted for — he was ashamed to 
shew ignorance. 
It was he who, with a few others, in the course of the last ses- 
sion, asked leave of the Professor to hold a meeting in the theatre 
for the purpose of getting up a petition to the Medical Examiners 
to continue their services in preference to having veterinary sur- 
geons ; but, after drawing up the petition, he did not dare to pre- 
sent it. 
You, Mr. Editor, perhaps recollect my shewing you an insult- 
ing anonymous letter that was written to me in consequence of the 
author being highly displeased at your appending the term “ V.S.” 
to one of my communications last year. The author of this epistle, 
I have every reason to believe, was the said George Fisher. It 
was meanly dropped, unsealed, near the dissecting-room. 
Mr. Fisher has reminded me, that when Professor Sewell an- 
nounced that the governors were perfectly satisfied with the present 
lecturer, and that they would not appoint another on “ cattle prac- 
tice,” this was received by the pupils with considerable applause. 
That there was some little applause I acknowledge, proceeding 
from a certain portion of the class; but there was nothing of the 
honest cheering which shewed that the heart was in it. 
He, Mr. F., then goes to “cattle practice,” and vauntingly and 
ignorantly eulogizes the Professor ; and says “ that he took im- 
mense pains to obtain animals labouring under the prevailing 
epidemic ; and while they were under his care, DAILY noticed to 
the students the symptoms, progress, and treatment of the disease ; 
and made many post-mortem examinations, and gave several lec- 
tures entirely on the subject, and visited large dairies in and around 
the metropolis.” He then mentions the ever-memorable circular of 
the Agricultural Society, and calls these things “facts.” Yes, I 
well recollect all about it ; and we will just see whether I have 
indeed concocted a “ tissue of falsehood,” and am 
“ Quick with the tale, and ready with the lie.” 
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