FROM THE EXAMINING COMMITTEE. 291. 
his friend, from whose opinion he knew that few of his profession 
would dare to dissent; and yet he had some confidence in the 
veterinarian, whom he had for some years known and employed. 
He summoned a sort of medical council; and half a dozen 
gentlemen, eminent in their profession, met at the desire of their 
associate and friend to hear and to decide. 
The question to be determined was a kind of border ground 
between the veterinary surgeon and the practitioner of human 
medicine. The symptoms of rabies in the quadruped ought to be 
well understood by both; by the one, because the animal was his 
patient; and by the other, that he might not inflict unnecessary 
pain on the person by whom he was employed, or expose him to 
dreadful danger by the neglect of proper precautionary means. . 
The sages had assembled. The member of the veterinary 
examining committee had just arrived. He was explaining the 
case. It was simply furor uterinus, but he understood some 
person had presumed to give a different opinion. He should like 
to see this person.’’ The poor veterinarian was at that moment 
entering the room. He felt himself somewhat aggrieved. He 
was put upon his mettle, and, in the declared opinion of the 
whole party, he fairly beat his formidable antagonist on every 
point; and on the following day, when a question of morbid 
anatomy was warmly contested, one of the first anatomical 
teachers in the metropolis was sent for, who unequivocally decided 
in favour of the humble veterinarian. 
We would refer to the excellent Dr. Jenner’s account of the 
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distemper in dogs and grease in horses, no more like those 
diseases than gout to scarlatina, for another proof, if proof were 
wanted, of the incompetency of human practitioners to decide on 
veterinary subjects. 
But are not some of the examining committee excellent ana¬ 
tomists ? and have they not devoted much time and thought to 
the study of comparative anatomy ? Most certainly, and yet 
we much doubt their fitness even here. Take the larynx of the 
horse, the ox, the dog, different from the human subject, and from 
each other. We rather suspect that a shrewd pupil might puzzle 
the best of them. Take the extensor apparatus of the fore 
extremities of the horse, the ox, and the dog. If we were the 
