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FROG PRESSURE SHOE. 
hoping that, as an auxiliary, it may be useful to the profession 
in the great cause of preserving or bettering the foot of the horse. 
One of you, Messrs. Editors, has had a shoe of this kind some 
time in his possession; and I sincerely hope that you will be ab e, 
in this or some future number, to add some remarks on its appli¬ 
cation, which will be much more interesting and useful to us 
than any I can offer. _ 
THE RIGHTS OF THE GRADUATED VETERINARY 
SURGEON. 
By " A Veterinary Student.’’ 
Knowing your Journal to be open to every thing which will 
benefit the veterinary profession and facilitate the advance of 
veterinary science, I am induced to lay before you a few thoughts 
which have occurred'to my mind respecting the manner in which 
the veterinary surgeon and the farrier, blacksmith, Sec., in the 
present state of things, stand related to each othei, and a simple 
means by which it might be remedied. 
At present, the veterinary surgeon has no defence whatever 
against the intrusions of farriers, 8cc. upon his rights, for any 
person pretending to farriery may and does style himself a ve¬ 
terinary surgeon, to the manifest annoyance and disadvantage 
of the really qualified vet. An act of parliament was once 
tried for to prevent" any but a regular veterinary surgeon from 
practising, but was not obtained; nor does it appear that a se¬ 
cond application would be more successful than the first. 
I would, therefore, suggest, that the profession at large should, 
each and every one, come to the resolution of placing on their 
sign-boards, over their gateways or doors, Veterinary Surgeon, 
by authority of the Royal Veterinary College of London,” or 
elsewhere. 
This would be a simple, easy way of preventing the obnoxious 
imposition; and a mere summons from the nearest magistrate 
would, at any time and in any place, be sufficient to oblige any 
such impostor to puli down a title which he may thus arro¬ 
gantly have assumed. 
I beg leave to lay these hints before you, resting assured that 
no veterinary surgeon will object to them ; and hoping to hear, 
in the next number of The V eterinarian, that some spirited 
member of the profession has set the example, and that it will 
be speedily followed by the rest. 
We readily give insertion to the communication of <# A Vete¬ 
rinary Student;” but we hope that the establishment of a public 
