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views we fully coincide. The day is now fast approaching when 
the blacksmith and ignorant empiric will no longer be consulted 
in cases of disease. 
“ We regret to observe that the Veterinary Medical Associ- 
ation has passed a resolution to publish their proceedings in a 
form separate from The Veterinarian, to which it should 
have clung as the ivy to the oak ; for we consider it no unimport- 
ant advantage to a society like the above, consisting principally 
of noviciates, whose stay in the metropolis seldom exceeds two 
years, to have their proceedings reported in a well-established 
journal of extensive circulation. The members of the Association 
should recollect, that when the proceedings of bodies like theirs are 
kept comparatively secret, a door is opened to the publication of 
garbled statements, and to a system of favouritism alike destruc- 
tive of all good feeling and manly independence. ” 
The British Queen and Statesman. 
ON THE PRESENT STATE OF THE VETERINARY 
PROFESSION. 
By Mr. S. Brown, Melton Mowbray. 
As Mr. Sewell condescends to receive a yearly sum out of the 
Royal English Agricultural Society’s funds, of course that gen- 
tleman identifies himself professionally as the servant of the 
society ; and as most servants engage to perform certain services 
in consideration of the amount of wages which they receive, and 
the employers alike consider themselves fairly entitled to an 
equivalent for the amount of money which they pay, there is 
every probability to lead us to suppose that our worthy Professor, 
in writing his circular on the epidemic among neat cattle, was 
actuated by a desire to fulfil a part of his engagements with the 
Society, as well as to confer a direct benefit upon the agricultural 
interest. I will not impute motives of a sordid nature to the 
pathological lecturer at the Royal Veterinary College : yet, I 
think that, if he had properly reflected, he would not have in- 
volved the reputation of the profession, or have endangered its 
interest, by writing a systematic mode of treatment of a certain 
disease, which was to have been carried into practice by persons 
ignorant of medicine, very liable to be influenced by credulity 
and strange infatuation, who would misunderstand and mis- 
apply much of that which was directed to be done, and who 
would, in all probability, be serious losers by what they did. 
