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hood, in order that you may judge of the injury that is likely i| 
ensue to the veterinary profession by the frequent failures of sue 
ignorant pretenders:—One of these persons is' employed by 
gentleman who has a stud of horses discharging from the schne 
- derian membrane: upon examination, he pronounced them a 
glandered! and the consequence was, that some of them wei 
destroyed. The groom not being satisfied with this decisior 
prevailed upon his master to turn two of them to grass; and ha 
the pleasure afterwards of seeing them recover.—The surgeon wa 
called to attend a case of the epidemic catarrhal fever^ so Y>re| 
valent in 1828; and after attending it for several days, and treatin 
it with bleeding, physicking, &c., the horse became decidedf 
worse-; and in consequence of this surgeon having lost a consi' 
derable number of horses labouring under a similar malady, h 
way of saving his professional reputation, called in one of th‘. 
most formidable of these empirics, w r hose opinion is considerei 
immaculate, who discovered an inflammation of the liver; and th< 
poor animal w r as doomed to swallow calomel in large doses, witl 
aloes, until death closed the scene; and on opening the body 
the viscera of the thorax and abdomen were in a healthy state 
while the pharnyx and larnyx were a complete mass of inflamma¬ 
tion and gangrene. This gentleman has not been more successfu 
in treating other diseases; for it is a notorious fact, that he has 
not had a successful case since he commenced practising the 
veterinary art; and I am certain that he has destroyed °more 
horses during the last twelve months than any knacker in Melton. 
—Another of these aspirants to veterinary fame commenced his 
career by stigmatizing the worthy Professor and his Assistant, 
after hearing a dozen of this gentleman’s (the Professor’s) lec¬ 
tures.—Another abuse, equally prevalent and injurious to the 
veterinarian, is, that druggists compound horse and cattle medi¬ 
cine, and sell it at a much cheaper rate than the veterinarian is able 
fi) do, after the sacrifice of time to acquire a scientific knowledge 
of his art, after the expenses of education, Sec. Sec. —The last, 
and not least, is, that class of men known by the designation of 
farriers, cattle-doctors, horse-breakers, Sec. &£. who are stigma¬ 
tizing the veterinarian in every possible way which their ingenuity 
can invent; and are actually endeavouring to take the bread out 
of the mouth of the scientific practitioner, and sending out their 
heterogenous nostrums, which have been handed down to them 
from ignorance; and by such means are destroying more horses 
and cattle annually than a malignant epidemic in half a century. 
Gentlemen, the above is a statement of facts not exaggerated 
or taken from calumnious reports, but which'have come under 
my notice, and for the authenticity of which I can vouch. I could 
