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CATTLE PATHOLOGY. 
By taking this path—the plain path of your duty—you sensibly 
gain a step towards correct professional conduct (for where the 
spring is pure, we expect the stream to be the same). Your ge¬ 
neral deportment to your brethren, whether in consultation or in 
society, will be kind and unassuming; and when called upon for 
your opinion, it will be given modestly, cautiously, and honestly, 
in the presence or the absence of unprofessional witnesses. 
Your duties to your employers will be fulfilled in like manner. 
Their orders executed with attention, and with scrupulous regard 
to their pockets. Your duties to your poor patients with careful 
observation—with discretion and humanity. 
When called upon to deliver an opinion in a court of justice, you 
will give it fearlessly and honestly, avoiding all ingenious theories, 
and only stating facts borne out by your own observation, or on 
the unquestionable veracity of others. Your statements will then 
be listened to with attention. Veterinary jurisprudence will be no 
longer blackened by contentious opinions, or remain a by-word 
and a laughing-stock to the world. 
To aim high enough,” then, whether in your education, or in 
your general conduct, and in the cultivation of those means by 
which it may be attained, you will thus perceive to be no light 
matter. The want of it, and the mischief it has occasioned, you 
may easily see exemplified by a reference to some of the following 
pages of this Periodical:—Vol. iv, p. 104 and 456; Vol. v, p. 
642; Vol. vii, p. 133, 347, 392; Vol. ix, p. 91; Vol. x, p. 
242, 285. 
It will, I think, be evident to you, that a change in principle, 
action, and conduct, must take place before ever we shall see that 
change in the profession itself which the present state of veteri¬ 
nary science demands. 
For farther advice on the important topics alluded to in this 
letter, I beg to refer you to Dr. Gregory’s Advice to a Physician, 
Ryan’s Medical Jurisprudence, and to many papers which you 
will find scattered among the volumes of The VETERINARIAN. 
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CATTLE PATHOLOGY, OR A COMPLETE TREATISE 
ON THE DISEASES OF THE OX. 
By P. B. Gelle, Professor of the Royal Veterinary School at 
Toulouse. Huzard, Paris, 1839. 
We continue to translate from the work of Professor Gelle. 
He relates a case of rupture of the oesophagus, and a successful 
one; but we acknowledge that we should have pursued a some¬ 
what different mode of treatment. 
