VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE—EMPIRICISM. 569 
“ Whoever will, may now practise veterinary medicine with 
impunity; no one can now oppose a barrier to the spread of the 
most disgraceful empiricism. The decree of the tribunal of 
Provins has determined this. 
“ Come on, then; come on, shepherds, cowherds, cunning 
men, diviners, conjurers, empirical cures, and empirical old wo¬ 
men, farriers, charlatans of every condition and every colour ! 
To work ! to work !! boldly enter the lists, and medically and fear¬ 
lessly, and recklessly murder the beautiful cattle that cover our 
fields! 
Est ce peche? non, non, vous leur ferez, Seigneur, 
En les tuant beaucoup d’honneur ! 
“ Veterinarians, who have grown pale during four years of study 
and of labour, what think you? will you cast from you those 
medical principles which you considered as the only sure foun¬ 
dation of fame and emolument? will you forswear the discove- 
l ies and the teachings of physiology ? will you cast from you your 
instruments and return to Solleysel ? No ! but you will redouble 
your efforts to rescue your beautiful art from that shade of dis¬ 
honour and disgrace in which it is now enveloped. You w 7 ill 
petition for, you will demand, the establishment of a law w hich 
shall properly regulate the practice of veterinary medicine; and 
you will not cease until your efforts are crowmed with success. 
“ A government like ours ought to regard and protect the in¬ 
terests of every class of its subjects. Already, in virtue of your 
education, you march in the same line with the practitioners of 
human medicine; and that general intellectual improvement 
w T hich advances with giant strides will accord you that position 
in society which your science and your services merit.” 
JSxtr 
Spayed Cows. 
Some years since, I passed a summer at Natchez, and put 
up at a hotel then kept by Mr. Thomas Winn. During the 
time that I was there I noticed two remarkably fine cows, which 
were kept constantly in the stable, the servant who had charge 
of the horses feeding them regularly three times-a day with 
green guinea grass, cut with a sickle. 
These cows had so often attracted my attention, on account of 
the great beauty of their form, and deep red colour, the large size 
of their bags, and the high condition in which they were kept, 
that I was at length induced to ask Mr. Winn to what breed of 
cattle they belonged, and his reasons for keeping them constantly 
in the stable in preference to allowing them to run in the pasture, 
