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tice to you, is not what the friend of veterinary science would 
exactly wish. 
To a considerable extent, however, I give you credit even here ; 
for the one has invited veterinary surgeons to the examination of 
his pupils, and they have come, and they have questioned the 
pupils, and somewhat severely too; and the other, although he 
has not had a public viva voce examination (which I think he 
should have had, and trust he will have another time), yet has 
submitted the written essays to the judgment of veterinary sur¬ 
geons alone. I think you have done a good deal to put these 
things on their proper footing, and the profession will duly esti¬ 
mate your conduct; yet you have somewhat too much to do with 
these examinations—you have too much influence over the deci¬ 
sion ; and I, after all, have still only the certificate of competence 
granted by a private school, and sanctioned by the friends of the 
teacher; a document, I acknowledge, of some value, yet not to be 
compared with one emanating from a board independent of all 
teachers, and representing the veterinary body. 
After all, gentlemen, you must pursue your course. You are 
demanding a privilege to which you have as clear a right as any 
other school, and 1 do not see how it can be justly refused to 
you; and, once being put in possession of that right, you are 
now shewing us that you would exercise it in a manner more 
consistent with the respectability of our profession than has been 
hitherto done (this is the first harsh expression, or the first un¬ 
pleasant comparison I have made, for I am no party man; and 
there was a time when, on perusing your periodical, I used often 
to exclaim, A plague on all your parties!!); but I must re¬ 
peat, that it would have been better if you had previously made 
one vigorous, although unsuccessful effort, to have placed the 
granting of veterinary diplomas on its proper footing. 
I am, gentlemen, with unfeigned respect, your’s, &c. 
An old Practitioner. 
7^HE VETERINARIAN, SEPTEMBER 1 , 1833 . 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
THE EFFECTS OF THE WOORAARA POISON—ITS 
ANTIDOTE. 
We are distinctly and unequivocally opposed to all experi¬ 
ments upon living animals, when the facts can be ascertained by 
any other means; and, unless some very useful end is to be ob- 
