580 MEDICAL MEN AND VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
His temper is mild, his disposition kind and compassionate, 
and his manners simple, although his intellect is sufficiently 
developed. His sleep is quiet and light, like that of the greater 
part of the herbivorous animals, and the least noise will disturb 
it. The sensibility of his skin is not great. Accidental burns 
and blows do not occasion him the sudden and acute pain 
which they seem to inflict on others; and when all around him 
are complaining of the cold, he does not seem to be incommoded 
by it. 
Bull, de la Soc, des Sc. et Arts, du Depart, du Var. 
THE FETERINARIAN, OCTOBER 1 , 1835 . 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.—C icero. 
I FEEL myself* pledged to resume the subject shortly hinted 
at in a part of the last Leader”—the interference of the human 
surgeon with the rights of the veterinarian. That that inter¬ 
ference does exist, and to a very considerable extent, is unde¬ 
niable. How many members of the College of Physicians are 
there, who, when visiting a sick chamber, scruple not, verbally 
at least, to prescribe (forgive the expression) for the maladies 
of domestic animals, to the injury of the veterinary surgeon, and at 
the hazard of their own reputation too. It is a far more common 
thing than is generally imagined, and, to a certain degree, per¬ 
haps, excuseable, from the wish to conciliate and to soothe the 
patient. 
Two titled M.D.’s meeting in Bryanstone Square, not many 
years ago, recommended spirit of turpentine for the tape-worm 
in a dog. It is true, they guarded themselves by directing only 
a small quantity of it to be given, and that in the form of 
pills, cum mica panis. The discharge of bloody urine which 
followed put a small sum into the pocket of those who should 
* Every leader is authenticated by the initial of the writer, and we have 
no mystery in our periodical; therefore the high-sounding plural of the per¬ 
sonal pronoun be henceforward omitted. 
