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be applied, are investigated; so that enlightened practitioners, 
whose study has been devoted to the veterinary art in all its 
branches^ may be gradually dispersed over the kingdom.” 
Mr. Sewell, in returning thanks, alluded to the aspersions 
which had been lately heaped on theVeterinary College, but which 
are now blown ooery “ Aspersions!” in other words, slanders, 
false accusations ! Does Mr. Sewell refer to The V eterinarian? 
For the last three years ours has been the only Veterinary Journal. 
Will he do us the favour to point out the particular aspersion ? 
We challenge him to the proof. We have exposed certain abuses, 
omissions, neglects, in the management of that institution, and 
we shall recur to them again as and when our discretion may 
prompt; but will he shew us one aspersion?” 
We had said in our December number, that we had ar¬ 
rived, or thought we had arrived, at that desired point, when 
controversy—ill-tempered controversy at least—might begin to 
cease among us.” Mr. Sewell concluded from this that we 
were all at once so inconsistent, or weak, or contemptible, as 
to disclaim the principle on which our reputation had been 
built; and that, for the future, we should be very quiet, harmless 
people, and let things go on as they would, and say nothing 
at all about them; and then, hallooing before he was out of 
the wood,” he could not repress his exultation that the system of 
aspersion” had blown over.” Now we will tell the worthy 
Assistant Professor exactly what we meant. 
We have been tolerably careful observers of veterinary poli¬ 
tics, and we have seen, of late, a tendency to reform, or at least, 
to improve, at head quarters. It might be a bit-by-bit re¬ 
form, but it was a reform, and it was a progressive one; and 
we have lived long enough to know, that, the necessity of reform 
once conceded, the thing will go on, whether the old people like 
it or not. We saw, if not in the College where it should have 
been, yet in its immediate neighbourhood, an efficient school of 
anatomical dissections and demonstrations established, scarcely a 
resemblance of which had previously existed. We heard of one 
nevv^ disease after another, treading closely on each others’ 
heels, acknowledged to have occasional existence, the very 
