ON CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. 
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I do hope, gentlemen, that the opinion of this veterinarian, as 
to the proper treatment of the horse is not that of his brother 
practitioners, otherwise you are in truth little emerged from that 
barbarism from which you are endeavouring to rescue your pro¬ 
fession, and are not worthy that the generous horse should be 
committed to your care. Such a man must be the actual if not 
the designed enemy to the improvement and respectability of his 
profession. 
I trust that your sense of justice,—justice to the individual 
that addresses you,—to your own brethren, to animals placed 
under your care, and to the cause of humanity, will induce you to 
give a place to this letter in your next number. 
I am, See. 
L. Gompertz. 
Kennington Oval, 
July 22, 1330. 
THE VETERINARIAN, AUGUST 1 , 1830 . 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
w e are not disposed to enter into the immediate cause of dif¬ 
ference between our last correspondent and our brother Editor 
farther than this, that we are perfectly assured, that if our contem¬ 
porary had not been misled by a false report, or had he known the 
situation and character of Mr. Gompertz, he would not have 
used him quite so unceremoniously. We have long had the plea¬ 
sure of knowing Mr. Gompertz as a gentleman of education and 
humanity. We have known him to be a competent u judge as 
to a horse being broken-winded, and as to what is unmerciful 
whipping,” from the possession and the use of the horse; and had 
our brother Editor seen, as we have, one of the four-footed de¬ 
pendants of this gentleman, after a life spent in his service, 
toddling about the paddock, and neighing at the distant sound of 
his master’s voice, and following him even into the very house, 
he would have deemed his occasional attempts at u cruelty refor¬ 
mation,” if “ officious and meddling” (we do not think that they 
were in this instance), yet faults which “ leaned to virtue’s 
