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red-wafer.” Indeed ! then this refers to the veterinarians of the 
north. Does the cap fit you, gentlemen ? For us of the south, I 
can only say, that long before “1813 when Mr. Webb came into 
•Elgin,” many of us were accustomed to bleed invariably in acute 
fedwater, and to be guided by the condition of the beast and the 
degree 0 f fever as to the propriety of bleeding when the disease 
assumed a chronic form. If Mr. Webb means more than this, 
why we think he had better go to school again ; and we marvel 
much at his strange and uninterrupted success. 
In tail-ill, p. 207, Mr. Webb has seen “ the bones of the tail 
quite vanish’’ into air, thin air, c< from the end of the tail for ten or 
twelve inches upwards.” The fact was, that Mr. Webb, in that 
superlative knowledge of anatomy, at the possession of which 
he so often alludes, mistook the interposed soft part, between the 
handle and the thong of this admirable whip, and without 
which it would have been comparatively useless, for the magic 
conjuring away of the bones. 
Have we been severe in our criticism of Mr. Webb? Hear 
our apology :—We have witnessed the rapid improvement of our 
art; perhaps we have, although in a slight degree, contributed 
to that improvement;—we have become gradually and deeply inte¬ 
rested in the advance of that improvement;—and we have sworn, 
and we will keep the vow*, to become the humble, but the will¬ 
ing, the devoted coadjutors of those who will labour to place our 
art on a scientific basis, and the uncompromising opponents of 
those who would recall or perpetuate the reign of ignorance and 
barbarism. We have suffered Mr. Webb to speak for himself; 
and he has convinced every reader that on no principle of 
science or humanity is his practice founded, and that such works 
as his must prolong the undeserved degradation of our pro¬ 
fession. 
He calls himself a veterinary surgeon. In what school did he 
study? We will answer unhesitatingly, neither in Edinburgh 
or St. Pancras, or the University of London : but the Morayshire 
Farmers’ Club have conferred on him the title of veterinary sur¬ 
geon ; then their veterinary surgeon let him be. 
* We will not, however, part quite in anger, except on one point 
—the diabolical mixture for poll-evil; and there we should de¬ 
spise ourselves if we did not feel indignant. Mr. Webb has 
discarded that long and destructive list of cordials and stimu¬ 
lants which used to destroy more cattle than all their natural 
diseases put together; he has advocated the propriety of bleed¬ 
ing, largely and repeatedly, in inflammatory cases) we will not 
quarrel about the principle on which he goes—he shall get rid 
of so much vitiated and corrupted blood : we, too, have got so 
