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yoking inquiry, it elicits those truths which otherwise might 
have long lain hidden. The time was when we took a much 
more active part than we now do at its meetings ; we can, 
therefore, speak of the great benefits resulting to the student 
from the debates there carried on, and how admirably cal- 
culated they are to promote the advancement of the pro- 
fession, by indelibly, although almost imperceptibly, storing 
the minds of the members with sound practical truths, and 
we trust it will be long ere they be discontinued. 
After this explanatory introduction, it only remains for us 
to add, that so pleased were the members of the Association 
with this essay as read by Mr. Haire, that they unanimously 
awarded to him their thanks, and solicited him to print it 
for their benefit, with which he has complied, thus giving 
publicity to an act alike praiseworthy and complimentary to 
both parties. 
We append a few extracts, taken almost at random, to 
show the nature of the work : 
“ Veterinary Jurisprudence/’ says our author “ may be defined, as 
that science which applies the principles and practice of the different 
branches of medicine to the elucidation of doubtful questions in courts of 
justice, respecting the lower animals. 
“ From this it will be readily inferred that a veterinary surgeon should, by 
right, be a man of no mean attainment, but one duly qualified, by a proper 
course of education, for the great responsibilities such a profession involves. 
Yet how fearfully blind to their own interest have some portions of the 
public, more particularly agriculturists, been, and I am afraid still remain, 
by employing persons whose only credentials are the knowledge of a limited 
number of nostrums of supposed efficacy, handed down most frequently 
from father to son, by virtue of which they dub themselves ‘Farriers.’ 
Some even have the effrontery to post over their doors, ‘Veterinary Sur- 
geon/ occasionally adding, ‘ and Castrator/ doubtless in their opinion to 
give tlfe proper tone to their calling. When making these observations, 
however, I must not forget the claim to antiquity such personages per- 
chance are entitled to, for, in the middle of the fourteenth century, Lino de 
Pietro Dini, a Florentine Farrier, wrote a treatise on Farriery , in which he 
speaks of the cultivators of Veterinary Medicine as individuals unaccus- 
tomed to study, and as dragged from the spade, or from guarding sheep. 
And who shall gainsay these cow-leeches their direct descent and hereditary 
properties ? 
“ But, ‘ Knowledge is Power/ gentlemen, — the real ‘ Simon Pure/ the 
man who has devoted time, talent, and purse in acquiring that ability which 
alone enables him successfully to pass through the great ordeal of an ex- 
amiuation by the London Council, in accordance to Act of Parliament, and 
who, diploma in hand, can attach M.R.C.V.S to his name — this is the 
Veterinary Surgeon of the present day — the one the more enlightened 
