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is amiss. Again, many farmers, bailiffs, &c. used to doctor for 
themselves ; but, having lost a cow or a horse, they lose all confi- 
dence in themselves. Perhaps there is no practitioner in the 
kingdom more free in explaining the nature and treatment of 
disease than I am. It is easy to see a thing apparently done by 
a bystander, but let him try to perform the operation, and he 
sees his error. Now, for instance, I have oftentimes taught the 
farmer how to use the probang or flexible tube, but many have, to 
their loss, killed the beast, cursed the tube, and returned to the 
aid of the veterinary surgeon. 
The only people to take advantage of the plain practice of the 
veterinarian are a few plainly educated empirics, for whom I 
think a remedy would be found, — that, in giving the treatment 
of disease, we were to confine our prescriptions more to Latin, 
and state the different feelings of the pulse under the finger in 
all our inflammatory diseases : thus, for instance, “ pulse 60, 
artery full, not very easily compressed, mitte sanguinem ex pleno 
rivo ad octarios undecem. — 2d day: artery contracted, corded, 
and strikes the finger sharp, detraheiur sanguinem ad octarios 
septem.” In such like manner should our treatment be described, 
and it would fully counteract any unfair advantage that might 
be taken of the explicit method in which the cases are detailed in 
The Veterinarian. 
I was well pleased to see the proceedings of the Veterinary 
Medical Society forming a part of your Journal; in fact, I would 
rather give five shillings per month for The Veterinarian, 
than have any thing shorn from it : its volumes form the most 
prominent feature in my library, and may they be an heir-loom 
to my family ! 
From Mr. C. Snewing, V.S., Rugby. 
I confess that my mind has lately painfully strayed to the 
storm of discord which I have fancied I saw brooding among 
the members of the profession. During many months past I 
have noticed the decrease of home contributions to the pages of 
The Veterinarian ; a Journal, which, from my heart, I do 
hope may not suffer, much less perish by that sordid power 
which, with pain I add, appears to hold sovereign sway in the 
breasts of so many. 
Proud am I to say, that it has been the medium, and almost 
the only one, that I could gain access to, of imparting to me 
knowledge, with which I have been enabled easily to obtain and 
accomplish that end which before too often baffled and per- 
plexed me. 
