CRUELTY TO HORSES. 
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There was au expression of the venerable Sir W. Blizard, at 
the students’dinner of 1828, which we trust will never be erased 
from the memory of the veterinary surgeon: — “ Remember, 
gentlemen,” said he, “ that your reputation and success must 
be founded on the union of science and humanity.” Science, 
more widely diffused among us by that improvement in veteri¬ 
nary education which the whole body of practitioners seem now 
united in determining to effect; and humanity resulting from that 
habit of thought, and propriety of feeling, and advancement of 
station, which would be the necessary and happy result of an 
improved education. Increase of science we will have; increase of 
humanity we must possess, or we can never do justice to our¬ 
selves, our employers, or our patients. 
The object of our profession is to mitigate or remove the pains 
and diseases of those who have, although our slaves, common 
feeling with us. Can we honestly, heartily, successfully, employ 
ourselves in this, if we do not sympathize with them; if we do 
not love to see them happy, and contemplate their sufferings with 
regret? Can the brute who regards them as mere machines, 
devoid of rights, placed without the pale of justice, created 
merely for our purposes, and to be sacrificed without crime to our 
caprices ; can he, by possibility, so identify himself with his pro¬ 
fession as to neglect no opportunity to mitigate pain, and to spare 
no exertion to increase enjoyment? This is the duty, and ought 
to be the pride and the pleasure of every veterinary surgeon. Re¬ 
gard to reputation, and sense of duty to our employer, are powerf ul 
principles of action ; but there is another as powerful, which the 
scenes we daily witness, and the means by which we live, should 
form and establish —sympathy with the feelings of our patients . 
What! with the feelings of brutes? Yes ! brutes as we call them, 
but who possess, in common with us, attention, and memory, and 
imagination, and reason, and ideas of reflection, and feelings of gra¬ 
titude, and truth, and duty; in fact, all whose intellectual and moral 
powers differ from ours not in kind but merely in degree. 
Dare we trace the education of the veterinary surgeon so far as 
humanity is concerned? See him at the College attending a 
necessary but severe operation, jostling and wrestling with his tel * 
