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biassed by a beam that prevents impartial and uninfluenced dis- 
crimination. 
The perusal of all my brethren’s letters has afforded me no in- 
considerable degree of real satisfaction, as they bear ample testi- 
mony — notwithstanding some variance of expression — that the 
dignity, as well as the mere prosperity of the profession, is the 
concentrating focus and the rallying-point, even of the diffident 
and weak-hearted : therefore, my small meed of approbation 
cannot be withheld, were I inclined to do so, from the quarter 
where I deem it to be so fully due. 
The commencement of each month has, hitherto, been to me a 
sort of gladsome era ; for I can assure you that it is generally 
hailed by feelings of professional delight, as 1 have invariably 
found a something either to interest or inform my speculative 
faculties, so far as either professional skill or humanity was con- 
cerned, in alleviating a few of the dumb kind’s inherent ills ; and 
if the truth were as plainly confessed by others, it would be 
found, beyond doubt, that all still, or at least may, learn as long as 
they live ; and also, that the regular publication of The V kte- 
rinarian with the records of the Veterinary Association is a 
bond fide boon of no mean worth to the more experienced prac- 
titioner as well as to the mere incipient. 
Since the issuing of Professor Sewell’s circular by the Agricul- 
tural Society among its members, many of the profession have 
experienced considerable injury in their practice, and now find 
themselves held at a discount ; for, no sooner was the farmer or 
grazier in the possession of the Professor’s mode of treatment, 
&c. of the epizootic, than he considered that the services of the 
regular practitioner were easily dispensed with ; and, indeed, in 
point of fact, in many instances the veterinary surgeons were 
slighted, as being useless and altogether uncalled for. Now, this 
circumstance seems to be considered as a strong corroborative 
proof that the publication of the treatment, &c. of diseases in plain 
straightforward language is an injury of considerable extent to 
the profession, by being divested of proper technicality, and of 
the too great latitude of circulating the benefits of that knowledge 
which is only to be acquired by an expensive education ! Hence, 
then, a rich field for the unscrupulous controversialist. But cha- 
rity forbids the supposition that any, no matter how subtle and 
formidable in argument, would be so recreant and base as to jeo- 
pardize the interests of the profession, either from individual pique 
or sophistical ambition. For my part, as I despise and scout 
the exclusive system in every possible shape, as being the only 
resort of empirics, that vainly hope to screen a little longer their 
absurdities from public scorn and indignation, yet, as a member 
