A CONCISE ACCOUNT,” &C. &C. 
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such, of the Edinburgh Veterinary School;” a ** history,” 
forsooth ! that veils, with specious and artful cunning, the de¬ 
cided superiority of the Edinburgh Veterinary School” over 
some of its compeers; and, with as much effrontery and un¬ 
blushing impudence, endeavours to impute that which really is 
not true. 
It is not my object to review this Concise Account ” (for 
this would be a performance as useless and uncalled for as the 
Concise Account ” itself), but to make a few remarks as I go 
along; and, more particularly, to notice what this nameless 
author has been pleased to write anent the Edinburgh Veteri¬ 
nary Schooland, in doing this, I shall only state what I know 
to be true, (which this author does not), without scurrility, 
without ‘‘ malignity,” or that homhasto J'uriosa, with which this 
Concise Account” abounds, but which, perhaps, the author 
supposed— tvas like the style of Dr. Chalmers. 
In page 4 there is a concise account” of what a dandified 
fellow said to a country practitioner,” See. &c. &c. Could this 
dandified fellow ” be a veterinary surgeon ? if he was, I am 
left to guess whence he came, or where he was educated. How¬ 
ever, we have no dandified fellows” at the Edinburgh Veteri¬ 
nary School; for, if they enter ‘‘ dandies,” dandies they do 
not remain above two days, for Professor Dick has a cure for 
them which he is never required to repeat. Some of the un¬ 
pleasant rubs which we occasionally meet with in practice will 
quiet down and cure the most dandified fellow, he has but a 
feio grains of sense. 
In the same page, this author adds :—Veterinary medicine, 
as a science, is of recent origin,” 8cc. &c. Here is “ information 
for the people,” who sit contentedly in profound ignorance—in 
ignorance of the deep research after knowledge which the 
author of the Concise Account ” is daily making, with unwearied 
perseverance, to benefit mankind. But who told the author of 
the “ Concise Account” that"" veterinary medicine, as a science, 
is of recent origin ?” Where did he get this information? Surely 
such an order of genius as this author must belong to, needed 
not to have recourse to Blaine’s History of the Veterinary 
College,” where the same information is more clearly given, and, 
of course, more easily understood. 
The author of the Concise Account,” whoever he may be, 
follows a plan in his writings the very reverse of Sir Isaac 
Newton ; because Sir Isaac told people of what they had never 
heard, whereas this author repeats what everybody knows and 
understands, better, |)crhaps, than he docs. 
In pages 5, (1, 7, and 8, there is every thing that could liavc 
