THE EDITOK. 
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Still I can and do most deeply enter into the feelings of those 
who have been so much injured by the circular of Professor 
Sewell. They have indeed been injured, and some years may 
pass before the practice on cattle which they once possessed will 
return to them : but it will return sooner or later. Let the veteri- 
nary surgeon endeavour to identify himself with the agricultural 
society in his neighbourhood — let him be always at his post in 
their meetings — let him make himself better acquainted with the 
subjects that are, as it were, common property between them, and 
he may be assured that he will soon find the advantage of his con- 
nexion with them. To express much anger at that which has 
passed would be worse than useless — it would be folly. The vete- 
rinary surgeon has suffered, and unwarrantably ; but the prospect 
before him is becoming favourable. Let him mingle among 
farmers-^ let him convince them that he knows a little of his own 
business ; and, much sooner than he at present dares to hope, he 
will be respected and employed, and that to an extent which he 
has scarcely dared to anticipate. 
From Mr. M. Pottie, Yoker Distillery , Glasgoiu. 
On receiving the July number of The Veterinarian, I felt 
a little surprise at finding that there was so much dissatisfaction 
among a few of the profession respecting the publication in a 
scientific work like The Veterinarian, and in a plain and 
straightforward manner, of certain cases of disease. 1 have 
yet to learn that secresy, in any profession, can be its legitimate 
or effective pillar of support. 
It seems that we have a battle to fight, and a field to conquer, 
and that we can only accomplish our task by enlightening and 
making converts of our enemies, for the greater part of them are 
enemies only through ignorance. The want of harmony that has, 
of late, prevailed among us is founded entirely on a mistaken 
view of things. If, from want of thought in him who ought to 
have been the guardian of our interests, too many of us stand in 
a different situation from that which we used to occupy as it re- 
gards the treatment of cattle, we have only to wait a little, and 
the confidence which used to be reposed in us will assuredly re- 
turn. We shall only make a bad matter worse, by injuring and 
defaming our brethren. If mischief has been done by ill-advised 
circulars, we are only increasing the evil when we are jealous of 
one another, and, instead of supporting the profession, degrade 
it. The habit which some of us have formed of looking with an 
evil eye on our brethren, and lauding our own merits at the ex- 
