THE VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
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sented to the medical committee and to the governors, praym| 
them to alter the law respecting the 
would undertake to present that memorial to the medical com 
mittee and to the committee of the governors, and to use mv in - 
ence, as far as I am able, to have it carried ™to ^ect [C/ ee ^ 
B it crentlemen, I wish you to bear in mind, that theie aie two 
question^ the one is, wither there should be 
surgeons added to the medical committee or a 
mittee of veterinary surgeons, together with the Fiolessor a 
>!»™ h “' 1 r” S^ThS . 
to this upon the eround of its being a degradation to have 
seoamte comm tee! I confess I never could enter into the feel- 
S of “gentlemen ; if I did I certainly should not volun- 
teer myself to be of the party to be so degraded. I fee 
perfectly competent to form a respectable vetermary board of our¬ 
selves; and that the existence of two 
general practitioners Every 
ancf another 
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Company dcfnot feel themselves degraded because they are not 
‘ t 0 f the College of Surgeons; the members ot the Col e B 
7s urn eons do not feel themselves degraded because they are 
not a Dart of the body of Physicians: they are separate bodies. 
I was glad to find to-day, from a gentleman who is very 
nronerlv called one of your leading men, that he had misc 
S what was intended with regard to this veterinary com¬ 
mittee He supposed that the pupils were to be examined by 
the medical committee first, and then by the vetennary com¬ 
mittee. He very properly said, If that be so, where is the com 
liulsion on the pupil to'be examined a second time. Having 
been examined once, he will not submit to another examination ; 
and he cannot be compelled to do so. . 
Now, that was not the intention of mysel 01 of Sn As tley 
Cooper. It was intended that the pupils should first be ex¬ 
amined bv the veterinary committee, but-that they should no 
receive their diploma till they had been examined by the medical 
“Sen'ttairZTgL. advocate for tml.aod the i—« 
attached to rank and respectability. I think we should study to 
know ourselves • and we ought not to put a higher stamp upon 
our "characters or profession than the public are willing to give 
us ; otherwise J shall subject ourselves to some degree o 
ridicule. In my opinion, we never can rank with the medical 
