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to the prudence and cool deliberation of the meeting, whether 
they would uige this doubtful or untenable point, when they 
w r ere soliciting that which was of so much greater importance to 
them.” 
We will not at present make a single remark on all this : 
very ingenious argument. It will have been, we doubt not, 
fairly sifted and properly disposed of, before this number of 
“ The Veterinarian” can be placed in the hands of our 
readers. 
The operation of Lithotomy on the horse is of rare occurrence. 
It has lately been successfully performed by the assistant pro¬ 
fessor at the Veterinary College. In justice to the operator,- and 
regarding the gratification and improvement of the profession, 
the history of it should not be lost; and veterinary practitioners 
would eagerly examine the records of their societies, and the 
pages of their journals, for an account of it. Their search w ould 
be fruitless. It is true, that the operation was performed at our 
public institution, and by the assistant teacher of that institu¬ 
tion ; and that it thus became the property of the institution—the 
property of the profession. It is true, that we had two veterinary 
societies, including almost every practitioner in the metropolis, 
and many a name of note among us, and over one of which so¬ 
cieties Mr. Coleman had not disdained, more than once, to pre¬ 
side. It is true, that we had two veterinary journals, one or the 
other of which Mr. Sewell well knew every veterinary surgeon 
perused ; and it cannot for a moment be disputed, that these 
were the vehicles through which the communication should have 
been made. 
But, no ! the societies, and the journals, and the profession 
itself, were beneath Mr. Sewell’s notice. It would have been 
degradation too great to associate his name with either of them. 
His vanity, however, would not permit the operation to be con¬ 
signed to utter oblivion; and it was sent—Where ? If not to vete¬ 
rinary surgeons, yet to some society of human surgeons, a little, 
and but a little, competent to determine the merit of the opera- 
