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REMARKS ON A PAMPHLET ENTITLED 
through the circulatory system of the ewe: if not derived from 
that source, they must be produced spontaneously in the brain, 
kidnies, and liver, those organs being capable, from some 
unknown cause, of generating them in se» 
A FEW REMARKS ON A PAMPHLET ENTITLED 
A CONCISE ACCOUNT OF VETERINARY 
SURGERY,” &c. &c. 
Bji/ Archibald Wilson, Pupil of the Edinburgh Veterinary 
School. 
Sept. 5, 1835. 
[We insert these ‘‘ remarks ” because we felt, and stated in our 
review of this little work, (see Veterinarian for March), that 
the author had not done justice to the Edinburgh Veterinary 
School. In a periodical devoted to the improvement and 
honour of the veterinary profession, our young champion has 
a right to be heard in such a cause. The Professor can scarcely 
be expected to enter the lists—his reputation is too well based 
on the esteem of his pupils, and the rapid progress of the 
veterinary art in Scotland; but it is pleasing—it is equally 
honourable to the instructor and the pupil—to see our youthful 
knight, and with his vizor up, maintaining the character of his 
school. His antagonist, if he answers to the challenge, must 
meet him on equal terms.—Y.] 
Some books are lies frae end to end.”— Burns. 
Some people write books for mere fun, others for amusement, 
and others for, perhaps, profit, or, what is perfectly intolerable, to 
vent their malignity ” on some deserving individual, who gets 
more patronage and more respect paid to him than they possess, 
or have any right to expect. 
I do not, by any means, find fault with a man for telling or 
writing what is strictly true, whether his motive may have been 
bad or otherwise. I do not wish that what is wrong: should not 
be put right, or what can be shewn to be a grievance should not 
have redress \ but I condemn and detest that man who, out of 
pure or rather impure malignity,” will allow his dishonesty to 
get the better of him, and say or write what he knows to be 
false, or what he does not know to be strictly true. 
I have been led to make the foregoing remarks, from reading 
in the above ‘‘ Concise Account ” a history, if it may be called 
