THE EDITOR. 
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and disgracefully limited, from our having been educated at an 
institution where the professors gave such an apparently deficient 
course of veterinary instruction : so that the profession became 
lowered in public estimation, by a fallacious attempt to inculcate 
the practical principles of veterinary science among those persons 
who really do not give themselves the trouble to acquire sufficient 
knowledge of the art to be able to trace the connexion of cause 
and effect. The consequence may, and probably will be, that it 
will require a long course of successful cattle practice before we 
can disabuse the public mind, so far as to procure the same amount 
of esteem and confidence from our employers which we possessed 
before the appearance of Professor Sewell’s circular. 
I am, &c. 
From Mr. Geo. Farrow, F.»$., Ash , Durham. 
My dear Sir, — I should consider myself unworthy to be a 
member of the veterinary profession, were I not to state, in reply 
to your note of the 2d instant, my decided opinion on a subject 
that appears to be so intimately connected with the advance- 
ment of the veterinary art. 
That I have derived much useful knowledge from the public 
records of veterinary transactions I do acknowledge ; and to you, 
as the principal contributor, I return my most cordial thanks. The 
great improvement which has recently taken place in the veteri- 
nary art, and particularly in the treatment of the diseases of 
cattle and sheep, is attributable, in a great measure, to the com- 
munication among veterinary surgeons, as recorded in Th e V ete- 
rin aria n. This means of improvement we have enjoyed for some 
length of time ; and are we to be deprived of it now, simply be- 
cause a few individuals, not connected with the profession, will 
take advantage of it ? 
That many agriculturists, farriers, and other persons will derive 
much insight and knowledge from the publication of cases and 
successful modes of cure, cannot be denied ; but, wholly ignorant 
of the structure and functions of the animal frame, will they be 
enabled to use those remedies with the same success that would 
attend their application in other hands ? I answer, that they 
will not. 
Where a great quantity of stock is kept, there are many cases 
of slight illness where a regular practitioner is not required ; and 
yet something must be done. There are, also, many proprietors 
of horses and cattle that are several miles distant from the residence 
of a veterinary surgeon, and on this account are obliged to treat 
