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guage than we should dare to use, expressed his decided conviction 
of the justice of our demand. To this we will .add, that there is 
but one feeling pervading the whole profession. We call on the 
committee to produce a single dissentient voice. > 
The committee have taken upon themselves the full responsi¬ 
bility and odium of the refusal. • The subscribers and governors 
wished for a change—the professor earnestly advocated it—the 
whole body of veterinary surgeons demanded it—the public, so far 
as the case had come before them, entertained but one opinion; 
and the medical examining committee havesetall this at defiance, 
and see no reason to change the present system. Is it, then, 
surprising that some of us should express ourselves in no very mea-^ 
sured terms ? Have the committee a right to complain ? . We have 
the common sensibilities of men; we are zealous for the respecta¬ 
bility of our profession, and we cannot and will not suppress .what 
we feel. 
There is a mystery about the affair which we cannot develope. 
There has been egregious misrepresentation, or most unaccount¬ 
able misapprehension, somewhere. We accuse no one, but we do 
marvel much. 
If some of our brethren, under the consciousness of supposed 
indignity and oppression, have gone a little too far, we regret it; 
We regret the effect which may have been produced on the minds 
of those with whose names esteem and gratitude will ever be as¬ 
sociated ; but we do frankly confess that we cannot very severely 
blame thein. 
Let us suppose for a moment that ours had been the elder art, 
or that, by some strange freak of fortune, a dozen of the best of our 
veterinary surgeons had obtained possession of the censors^ 
board at the physicians’ college, or that of the examiners at sur¬ 
geons’ or apothecaries’ hall, and we think that, degraded as we 
are, a dozen of us might be selected who would evince no discre-. 
ditable knowledge oLthe general principles on which our kindred 
professions are founded. Let us suppose that, ignorant of the 
application of these principles to the practice of human medicine, 
we were, in defiance of common sense, and the stern remonstrance 
of the united body of medical men, and the unanimous voice of 
the public, to persist in excluding from the board those who 
