THE EDITOR. 
563 
From Mr. John Storry, F.S., Pickering. 
My dear Sir, — Your appeal to your correspondents and the 
profession generally on the propriety and desirableness of conti- 
nuing the publication of The Veterinarian free and open to 
all the world, meets, I am happy to say, my entire approbation. 
I am proud to acknowledge that I have derived great advan- 
tage from the valuable communications of many of your de- 
servedly respected correspondents, and have been delighted to 
find that year after year it has been advancing in interest and use- 
fulness to the profession of which it is the acknowledged organ ; 
while to the public generally it has in some measure been accept- 
able, and in many respects useful. 
Although many errors may have been committed in too plainly 
describing the symptoms and treatment of certain diseases, so as 
to give an opportunity to the ignorant pretender, or the inte- 
rested or rather selfish farmer, to attempt the cure of his own 
stock in certain cases, yet I am of opinion that this will be of 
short duration ; for by numerous failures and losses in the attempt 
to cure them, of which I have seen many a proof, I am satisfied 
that it will ultimately and reciprocally prove beneficial to the 
regular practitioner and to the farmer also. To the former, by his 
skilful treatment of the many varied and complicated disorders 
which frequently occur ; and to the latter, who, having failed in 
his expectations of a cure, and perhaps suffered severely for his 
ignorance and folly, will be the more ready to confide in the su- 
perior skill of his professional attendant. 
If we have. Sir, in some instances written out peculiar cases 
in too plain a phraseology to be misunderstood, yet I contend that 
nothing but the grossest ignorance and selfishness could induce 
the farmer to assume that he himself can be competent (with the 
assistance of a few recipes, picked up God knows how, for various 
disorders) to exercise the requisite skill, in order to ascertain the 
symptoms that precede and attend the different stages of certain 
diseases, so as to be able to judge of the suitableness of the medi- 
cine he is about to administer. Repeated failures and losses 
must follow, until he loses all confidence in himself and the re- 
cipes he has made use of, however eminent the name whence they 
emanate. I have had practical experience of this result in seve- 
ral cases, and will just name one out of many similar ones. 
A farmer in our neighbourhood, whose stock I had attended for 
several years when necessary, and who, by the success almost in- 
variably attending my practice always seemed to be perfectly 
satisfied, had, however, been induced to try the efficacy of some 
recipes that had been denominated infallible cures for certain 
