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to address you, but l am afraid that I have rambled even bevond 
your patience. I meant to have referred to the continiiai difier-. 
ence of opinion between Mr. Coleman and Mr. Sewell; and even 
I\Ir. Vines, who, with a kind of nonchalance and presumption 
to me altogether unintelligible, will often start and stoutly 
maintain a third opinion, reconcileable with neither of the others. 
But the animus—the feeling'—the manner—the plain and palpa¬ 
ble object, used to be far more disgusting to us than the mere 
contrariety of opinion. I trust that we shall see nothing of this 
in the ensuing session. It cannot be for many years that re¬ 
straint will need to be imposed. Let good feeling, common 
courtesy, honour, prompt those to whom I am alluding, how 
they ought to act. I do not know the subject w'hich is more 
likely to produce an explosion among warm-hearted and straight¬ 
forward young men than this. Should it be necessary, I shall 
claim a page or two of j^our invaluable Journal for this, and one 
or two other desiderata. 
I am, &c. 
12tli Oct. 1833. Studens, 
SURGERY AND VETERINARY SURGERY. 
It will be curious to compare the state of surgery at the pre¬ 
sent time with that of the time of Henry VIII, at which period, 
as Gale tells us, there were very few w'orthy to be called sur¬ 
geons. His account of those employed in the army is very 
humorous:—I remember,” says he, “ when I was in the 
wars at Muttrie (Montreuil), in the time of that most famous 
prince. King Henry VIII, there was a great rabblemeut that 
took on them to be surgeons; some were cow-doctors, and some 
horse-doctors, and some tinkers and coblers. This noble sect did 
such great cures, that they got themselves a perpetual name: for, 
like as Thessalus’s sect were called Thessalians, so was this noble 
rabblement for their notorious cures called dog-leaches; for in 
two dressings they did commonly make their cures whole and 
sound for ever; so that they neither felt heat nor cold, nor no 
manner of pain after. 
‘‘ But when the Duke of Norfolk, who was then general, under¬ 
stood how the people did die, and that of small wounds, he sent 
for me, and certain other surgeons, commanding us to make search 
how these men came to their death ; whether it were by the grievous¬ 
ness of the wounds, or by the lack of knowledge of the surgeons; 
and we accordino; to our commandment made search throueh all 
the camp, and found many of the same good fellows, which took 
