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Before this, in his preface, he says — 
“Throughout our labours we have especially considered the wants and 
the requirements of the veterinary student. The young men who are 
almost daily going forth into the world of busy life, either to prepare 
for or practice as veterinary surgeons, must remember that the public have 
a right to expect from them the practical development of principles in t he 
treatment of equine disease far in advance of those pursued by our fore- 
fathers. On the other hand, to instruct in such higher principles and 
advanced modes of practice, is without doubt the true province of every 
teacher and of every writer upon veterinary medicine. If we have failed 
in respect to these true essentials, we assure the reader such failure does 
not arise from Jack of industry, but from lack of ability both to understand 
the tendency of the age with regard to the former, aud the require- 
ments of the pupil with regard to the latter . 55 
Again, in the treatment of inflammation, he observes — 
“The principles of cure to be pursued in the treatment of inflammation 
demand the earnest attention of the veterinary surgeon. In the successful 
treatment of disease the value of the veterinary practitioner to the com- 
munity at large really centres. It matters not how accomplished he may 
be in scholastic attainments, how many modern languages he may be able to 
speak, how many colleges lie may have visited or graduated at, or what 
amount of information he may possess of a general character; the chief 
question with those who employ him will be, Can he cure? It. is oue thing 
to understand principles of cure, it is another to apply them successfully. 
Sometimes the two are associated in one man. The combination of a know- 
ledge of the principles of science in any of its branches, and a ready and 
efficient application of such principles to practice, are elements which go to 
constitute a great man. 
“The reader must not suppose that we are opposed to the acquirement 
of deep and extensive information. By no means are we to be so under- 
stood. Oil the contrary, we assert the reverse. Let the veterinary 
surgeon be educated to the highest degree possible; but at the same time we 
urge that the greatest attention be paid to what is really practical and 
useful. In the profession of the healing art, mere scholastic display is useless. 
Let those who possess knowledge strive to make it useful to the com- 
munity . 55 
There is too great a love of detraction scattered throughout 
the pages of the work before us. When will the indulgence 
in this censorious spirit cease amongst us? Until it does, 
our advancement as a body is hopeless. We sincerely regret 
its existence, and would that a more healthy state prevailed, 
and care not whether it be brought about by allopathy or 
homoeopathy. Who has made us to differ? or what have we 
that has not been given to us? Therefore are we debtors, 
and boasting of superiority is excluded. But few will not 
remember what almost the greatest among human intellects 
