88 
ON THE PRESENT DEGRADED STATE 
ral terminations of inflammation which frequently occur in pecu¬ 
liar constitutions independent of tetanus. 
I am, dear Sir, your’s faithfully, 
James Turner. 
3 11,-Regent Street,) 
Jan. 5, 1832. { 
ON THE PRESENT DEGRADED STATE OF THE 
VETERINARY PROFESSION. 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Gentlemen, 
Your observations, in a former number of The Veterina¬ 
rian, on the subject of Newmarket being without a veterinary 
surgeon, are calculated to call to recollection some of the melan¬ 
choly truths which the members of our profession, that is, the 
few who can with any propriety be called members of a profes¬ 
sion, are but too often reminded of,—the degraded, the neglected 
state of the veterinary art in this country, although the first 
country in Europe for her breed of all domestic animals, but pre¬ 
eminently celebrated in the breed of horses. 
For one, however, I differ materially from you, when you de¬ 
scribe the state of the profession as discreditable to us; on the 
contrary, I assert that, were it not for the few educated men who 
have embarked their talents and industry in it, that its state 
would be indeed discreditable. It is but to the exertions of indi¬ 
viduals that the veterinary art holds still a rank among profes¬ 
sions at all; and none amongst us have greater claims than your¬ 
selves, or, indeed, so great, for the strenuous and disinterested 
efforts you have made to accomplish all that is desirable for the 
welfare and respectability of the veterinary profession. 
Yet, I cannot take blame to myself, because Mr. Tinman, 
perhaps my neighbour, too, who, having jumped from the coun¬ 
ter to the college, next commences the practice of veterinary me¬ 
dicine in the country, blending the appropriate trades of bell¬ 
hanging, saucepan-making, and “ smith's work in general,” with 
it; and who, red-hot with the diploma, and a lore of informa¬ 
tion picked up in*a few months’ attendance upon those worthies 
at St. Pancras, displays his ignorance by his gibberish ; having 
a few medical slang terms at his tongue’s end, instead of a know¬ 
ledge of the art, and which, to our great prejudice with the think¬ 
ing and respectable part of the community, he substitutes for his 
deficiencies, and disgusts every one who has discernment enough 
to distinguish between impudent pretensions and real merit. 
“ Ex uno disce omnes and we suffer because Mr. Coleman 
