582 MEDICAL MEN AND VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
US a little. He may, when we are out of the way, give a glass 
of rum and milk—a strange drink for a horse—in a case of ob¬ 
scure and yet acute thoracic affection, accompanied by depression 
and staggering—he may give a dose of physic when the animal 
labours under inflamed lungs ; or, the case terminating fatally, 
and the lungs being congested, rotten, he may blame the veteri¬ 
narian because he had not detected an insigniflcant ulcer in the 
fauces. All these things have happened to the writer. These 
gentlemen yet live, and, for many a reason, I hold them in 
high esteem. Talking about another person’s horse, the surgeon 
may, and often will, hazard an opinion as to the nature of the dis¬ 
ease, and the treatment which, in his opinion, ought to be pur¬ 
sued ; but, much oftener, he will be the veterinarian’s friend, if 
that veterinarian is a competent and well-conducted man ; be¬ 
cause he is brought oftener into contact with him, and knows 
more of the horse and the dog than the physician does, and his 
own ignorance of many of the circumstances which modify the 
character and the treatment of the diseases of those animals. 
But what shall I say of the general practitioner, in this metro¬ 
polis at least? Out of it he often occupies the same situation 
with regard to the veterinarian that the pure surgeon does here, 
and has the same feeling and exercises the same kindness towards 
him ; but that is not always the case in the country, and the 
exceptions are much more numerous in the metropolis. I could 
readily prove, with regard to certain parties a little way to the 
north of Oxford Street, that they have been accustomed, for 
many a year, to give advice for the quadruped as well as the 
biped, and to send in, and to put them regularly in the bill, me¬ 
dicines for the former just as they would the latter. It is only a 
few weeks ago that a horse disappeared from the window of a 
surgeon and accoucheur in a street leading to the Regent’s Park, 
and who gave no other indication of his being a general dealer 
in drugs than the appearance of a model of this animal in the 
window of a seemingly private house. This was nonsense and 
ignorance; but the extent of the annoyance from others, and the 
injury, also, to which he who practices on all domestic quadru¬ 
peds is liable, is scarcely credible. When these gentlemen do 
