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barley-water. If repeated trials of a medicine which has been ac- 
companied with successful results should be any criterion by which 
we can judge of its effects, I feel assured that this acid is both a 
tonic and an antiseptic. It corrects the fetid mouth ; and although 
the horse for a week or ten days previously had scarcely tasted 
solid food, it is not an uncommon occurrence to see the sensation 
of hunger return in a few minutes after the administration of the 
acid. 
[To be continued on Cattle.] 
ON THE FUTURE EDUCATION OF THE VETERINARY 
SURGEON. 
By E. A. FRIEND, Esq., Walsall. 
In the dawning of a new era, which is even now peeping out 
from the edge of our professional horizon, it becomes every mem- 
ber of that profession to endeavour, as much as in him lies, to re- 
move those obstructions that might prevent its breaking forth into 
the blaze of a glorious day. I have thought for some time that 
veterinary surgeons are justly liable to the charge of supineness in 
not taking sufficient advantage of late and present circumstances. 
I allude now particularly to the avowed intention of the English 
Agricultural Association to interest itself in the future education 
of aspirants to veterinary honours. I have waited a long time for 
some influential member of the profession to come forward with 
his views on this important subject; and as no one has done so, I 
hope I may be pardoned for offering a few remarks to your notice. 
We have no right to expect that advantages such as the first 
Agricultural Association in the world might be capable of ren- 
dering to us should be thrust upon us unwished or unasked 
for. We are the party who have felt the misery and depriva- 
tions of a defective professional education ; and it is our duty to 
seize every opportunity afforded us, of transmitting to posterity a 
better and more efficient mode of instruction. It certainly strikes 
me, that they who have experienced the evil ought to interest 
themselves the most in seeking the remedy ; and I earnestly hope, 
that the profession will, as with one voice, let its wants, with re- 
ference to instruction, be known, that whatever the Association 
may finally determine upon, they may not, at least, be in ignorance 
of what we ourselves would consider the most efficient assistance 
which we could receive at their hands. 
In detailing the hopes which I had indulged in from the formation 
of this society, identified as it must be with the best interests of our 
