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charge. And, now, we are not unwilling to try what quiet¬ 
ness” will do, and see whether advantage will be taken to ef¬ 
fect changes which obstinacy resisted, more because it disliked 
dictation than because it loved things as they were.” We will 
be quiet, but we shall not slumber at our post. We will be 
quiet, unless we are “ malignantly” attacked. 
We also thank our author for the acknowledgment of one re¬ 
formation w^hich The Veterinarian—or, rather, the wish of the 
profession, expressed through the medium of The Veterinarian 
—has effected,—the ‘‘ compelling the student to prolong his 
residence at school.” Why ! this is the most important of all 
the objects at which we aimed—it is the only foundation on 
which the improvement and future triumph of our art can be 
built—and, if this were all. The Veterinarian would not be for¬ 
gotten in times long to come. But, says our friend, its work 
will be more apparent by and by.” We had thought that he 
could have added a little more now — but we are content 
to wait. 
We are glad to have done with controversy, and especially 
with an old pupil ;—a relation this which the instructor who 
throws himself into his work does not soon forget. We shall 
meet again on pleasanter ground, and he will do us no injustice. 
He proceeds from the veterinary schools and periodicals to a 
consideration of veterinary practitioners as they are generally 
found. We will leave our readers to follow him in this new, 
and interesting, and dangerous track; and we can assure them, 
that they will derive considerable amusement and instruction 
to6. We will give one extract more,—the contrast between the 
veterinarian of former days, and too frequently of the present 
time, who founds his pretensions to skill on his great practice and 
long experience, and the surgeon who has laboured hard to ground 
himself in those principles of his profession which alone can, 
consistently with his own reputation and the safety of his pa¬ 
tient, guide his proceedings,—the falsely called practical man, 
and the more falsely called man of theory, We cordially recom¬ 
mend this little work to the perusal of every one connected with 
the veterinary profession, and to every proprietor of domesticated 
animals. 
