THE EDITOR.. 
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such an inappropriate emblem of a scientific mind — a fit type of 
the priests of the middle ages. 
As the Editor of The Vet eri n aria n, allow me to recommend 
you to follow out the practice observed by the journals of human 
medicine. Let your subjects be clothed, as Mr. Morton well 
remarks, in scientific terms, and understood only by scientific 
men. We have no occasion in our narration of cases to commu- 
nicate or particularize the doses of every drug we administer, “to 
the twentieth part of one poor scruple but rather let us observe 
the practice so well recommended in the last paragraph but one 
of the letter of Mr. Read, of Crediton, “ If it should unfortu- 
nately happen that some now in the profession cannot as yet un- 
derstand correctly communications so made in consequence of a 
defective education, let them stick to the old motto, ‘ Labor 
omnia vincit,’ and then all the unfounded apprehensions and vi- 
sionary fears as to the injury likely to be sustained by the gene- 
ral circulation of veterinary science will pass by as the idle wind, 
which we regard not/’ 
From Mr. Samuel Brown, Melton Mowbray. 
That Professor Sewell’s circular on the epidemic among neat 
cattle should have excited, not only feelings of jealousy and dis- 
approbation among practitioners, but also have called forth those 
animadversions that have appeared in the pages of The Vete- 
rinarian, is not in the least surprising: but when we take a 
retrospective view of the hitherto neglected state of cattle pathology 
— the rapid progress which the epidemic was making through the 
country — and the terror which the name of murrain excited 
among the agriculturists, many of whom were credulous enough 
to suppose that the disease originated from unnatural causes, 
and that it w r as sent by a Divine Power to scourge the nation for 
her iniquity, — in such a state of general excitement and dismay, 
as well as from the impression that this was a new disease, and 
one, too, which the cattle doctors knew little or nothing about, 
and also, in connexion with this, the astounding fact , that vete- 
rinary surgeons did not generally treat the diseases of neat cattle, 
neither was it reasonable to suppose that they could have much 
knowledge in this branch of veterinary science, because cattle pa- 
thology had not been taught at our national institution ; — under 
such circumstances, the agriculturists very naturally felt much 
alarm, and anxiously sought a remedy for a disease, the exagge- 
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