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VETERINARY PROFESSION. 
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“ There is nothing of the kind,” from many a voice. 
Mr. You att. —1 beg pardon, sir. I believe I was wrong. 
The term “ all the branches of the veterinary art" could scarcely be 
bund in the College diploma, when so many branches of instruc- 
ion are altogether neglected. The diploma, however, does assert 
he competency of the candidate to practise as a veterinary 
airgeon. But I was entering on a line of argument evidently 
inpleasing. I will not press it. 
Then, as to the degree of repute in which the veterinary surgeon 
s generally held [noise and interruption from various quarters.^ 
Sir, I am probably intruding upon you at greater length than 
iome persons may like; but you will please to recollect that it is 
ny first offence to-night, and the sum total of this offence will fall 
ar short of the ten times repeated offences of others. Sir, I am 
lot to be put down. I will be heard. I was about to speak of 
he actual repute of the veterinary surgeon. Are there not many 
acing and sporting stables into which the veterinary surgeon is 
arely or never admitted ? Is not this too generally the case; 
>r, if he is admitted, in authority and the confidence placed in 
lim does he stand on an equal footing with the stud or training 
!joom? 
A Gentleman. —That is the fault of the owner. 
Mr. You att. — 1 : admit it, sir; but it shews the low estima- 
ion in which the veterinary surgeon is held by the owner. I 
vill refer you to the stables at Newmarket. Into many of them 
he veterinary surgeon is rarely permitted to enter. You would 
hink that Newmarket was the situation in which a veterinary 
urgeon of common talent and conduct would not fail of doing 
veil. I have been told that eight or ten young men have suc- 
■essively tried to establish themselves there and have failed. 
knew two of them, competent and deserving, who soon found 
hat they could not there get their bread, and quitted the place 
loud murmurs .] Is this unpleasant to some gentlemen ? It is 
i home truth which they cannot deny, and which they do not. 
ike. I could almost find it in my heart to treat them with many 
nore of these truths, and each more stinging than the last. The 
ituation which I have the honour to hold as joint-editor of a cer- 
ain publication, has supplied me with many more of those facts 
han I, or the gentlemen who are now so loudly murmuring, like 
o hear of. But I have done. These are plain facts. The me- 
lical committee, Mr. Coleman, and Mr. Sewell, have expressed 
heir conviction of the expediency of this second committee. 
They have placed it on the proper ground, the extended cultiva- 
ion of the veterinary art—not so extended, by far, as we could 
vish, but to an evident and important degree. The present state 
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