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THE VETERINARIAN, JANUARY i, 1840 . 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
We have received, within the last month, no fewer than three 
letters from veterinary surgeons, bearing on nearly the same point, 
and expressing their dissatisfaction at the injury which the present 
regulations respecting the residence of pupils at the Veterinary 
College are doing them. We take one as a sample of the rest. 
Are not the regulations with regard to the stay of the pupils 
at the Veterinary College very objectionable, and calculated to do 
the profession a great deal of injury 1 I am at the present moment 
an illustration of this hardship. I had a youth all but bound to 
serve me three years, and he was to pay me a very considerable 
fee; but, while the arrangements were making, the father heard 
that the boy would have to stop at the College, after his appren¬ 
ticeship to me, just as long as if he was not bound to me, or to any 
surgeon at all. He immediately came to me and said, ^ I shall not 
send my son to you.’ ^ How is that, Mr.-V I replied. ^ Why, 
I find that it would only be a loss of time and money, for, after he 
leaves you, he will have to stop with them just as long as a young 
man that never saw a horse in his life.’ 
Now, sir, T regard this as not intended to be so, but a flagrant 
insult on me, and on the whole body of practitioners. We take 
our apprentice—we keep him three years; but, in the estimation 
of the gentlemen at the College, we do him so little good, that they 
will not take off a single week from the period of his residence 
there. It is, I say, an unintended, but a gross insult upon the whole 
body of practitioners. We deeply feel it, and others are ready to 
take the advantage of it. Take away six months from the period 
exacted from the apprentice of a veterinary surgeon, and add it to 
the required residence of him who knows nothing about veterinary 
matters, and we would not complain; but, as the affair at present 
stands, the strangest injustice is practised upon us, and on our pupils 
too. No great time will elapse before we shall not be able to get 
