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THE VETERINARY PROFESSION. 
at the expense of his professional brethren. His Lordship, in the 
language of friend Morton, is not content with causing a profes- 
sional suicide, but exults over our bodies, and defames us when 
dead. 
As for “imposition,” I, and I am sure the majority of the 
profession, could honestly assert that we never imposed upon a 
client, or sought more than an honest remuneration for services 
performed. 
I may be told that his Lordship did not mean to include vete- 
rinary surgeons : if so, why did he not more carefully express 
himself? Why could he not, if he meant to censure the illegiti- 
mate only, pass in return some slight eulogium upon the legiti- 
mate? — for I must tell you, Sir, that in the provinces, although 
possessed of our diploma and all honorary certificates, the 
term “ veterinarian,” is too cracked-jaw a word for many of our 
employers, and we are compelled to be contented with the old- 
fashioned cognomen of horse-doctor. What was the impression 
upon his Lordship’s audience? why — if they took his descrip- 
tion of us to be accurate — that we are a set of impostors, and 
that the sooner they give us notice to quit their stables and yards 
the better. 
For the sake, however, of us all, I will conclude with a hope that 
his hearers were more generous than the liberal Lord Spencer. 
THE VETERINARIAN, OCTOBER 1, 1841. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, r.e quid veri non audeat. — C icero. 
Our readers are probably, ere this, thoroughly tired of the 
subject that has so long occupied our pages; but, it is one that 
must be finally settled, for on it depends the future character of 
our Periodical, and, to a certain degree, the progress of our art, 
and its estimation with the public. Are we justified in mono- 
polizing or concealing any thing that relates to the preservation 
of the health of our patients, or the cure of their diseases? Will 
our art be accelerated or retarded in its progress by the claim to 
exclusive knowledge or the affectation of mystery ? 
These are questions to which several of our contributors have 
given an unanswerable reply. The medical journals promulgate 
without reserve the opinions and practice of the human surgeon 
