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ET ERIN A R Y A FF AIRS. 
No, no : appoint a fit and proper person to teach the pathology 
of the ruminant is the clamour from without. Until that is done 
the veterinary surgeon will be little better than a quack doctor : 
accomplish this, and it would be of itself a charter. 
I was, possibly, as early in the field as many of my fellow vets. 
I expressed my sentiments in no measured terms in a letter to 
Mr. Mayer on the subject of a Charter of Incorporation, which I 
told him, without the required instruction of the pupil, was com¬ 
paratively of little value. There is one question, however, which 
it is difficult to answer. How can the old cowleech be dispensed 
with until our veterinary surgeons are taught the management of 
cattle in a way likely to profit themselves and their employers ? 
Until this desideratum is accomplished, the cowleech will remain a 
useful member, and rightly so. 
Is it possible for any man to teach the pathology of cattle with¬ 
out a perfect knowledge of the same 1 He must be a practical 
man alone who dares to accomplish this great and most indispen¬ 
sable object. 
If Professor Sewell had talent to do justice to all that he seems 
to aspire to, he must inevitably sink under the task imposed upon 
liim. No man can accomplish palpable impossibilities. His old 
pupils—of which I am one—have much regard for him; but they 
have more for the profession to which they belong. They would 
fain blend the two sentiments. In their old instructor they would 
recognize the benefactor of the profession. It rests with him,— 
they respectfully, but plainly tell him so—whether the veterinary 
profession is to take its proper standing or sink into contempt. 
Let him sanction the appointment of a third Professor. There 
will be little difficulty in finding one, and the triumph of our art is 
assured: but let him, influenced by false ambition or mere cupidity, 
permit the golden opportunity to slip, and ill will it fare with our 
art, while his name will become a by-word and a proverb. 
I am, my dear Sir, faithfully your’s, 
J. B. Carlisle, V. S., Wigion. 
