THE FREEDOM OF VETERINARY SCIENCE. 527 
to fill, every discovery which he makes, every improvement on 
our art which may suggest itself to his mind, is the property of 
the profession ? Is he not one of the guardians of our weal—a 
second parent?—and what should we think of that father who 
initiated only a small, a very small part of his family in manipula¬ 
tions—processes, essential to the proper practice of their common 
profession—and left the majority of his children to grope their 
way ignorant and abandoned, while he was abundantly more 
liberal to distant relations, who neither understood nor properly 
estimated the value of his instructions ? When, in process of time, 
he occupies that station among us to which his long connexion 
with the Veterinary College gives him a paramount claim, does 
he suppose that he will be permitted to confine the full explica¬ 
tion of his discoveries to his favourites, his parasites, and me¬ 
dical men ? The whole profession will indignantly rise and pro¬ 
test against a system at once unjust and insulting. Another 
man might do as he will with his own, but the heads of the vete¬ 
rinary art have, in the respect to which we allude, nothing of 
their own to exercise their caprice about: their talents, their 
labours, and the result of both united, are the property of their 
pupils and their profession, and the enjoyment of them should 
be as free as air. 
Some annoying circumstances must occasionally attend this 
mode of publication. The following story will afford an illus¬ 
tration of this:—A professor of high standing in one of the 
metropolitan medical schools a few days ago asked the writer of 
this leader to shew him the first clear and somewhat manageable 
case of rabies which he might have in his hospital, and assist 
him in performing on the dog Mr. SewelFs experiment on a 
tetanic horse, viz. to destroy it by the woorara poison, to resus¬ 
citate it by artificial respiration, and to see whether, as in the 
horse, the nervous erythism had been completely got rid of. The 
veterinarian stared at him with astonishment, and said he was 
not aware of such an operation having been performed, and 
thought there must be some mistake about the matter. On the 
following day he had opportunity to see two long-established 
town veterinary surgeons, and he asked them about the thing. 
