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ON VETERINARY CONSULTATIONS. 
Although, in the present case, art has been eminently suc¬ 
cessful in the removal of a most formidable disease, yet the 
ultimate and complete success to be anticipated in similar cases, 
must be governed, in a great degree, by what may be the issue 
of the fore«:oino^ considerations. 
O O 
THE VETERINARIAN, AUGUST 1 , 1833 . 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
ON VETERINARY CONSULTATIONS. 
WE have often \vondered that no one amono; our numerous 
and talented correspondents has taken up this subject. To the 
mere pretender, a consultation with another practitioner of esta¬ 
blished reputation, as to the course to be pursued in a case which 
he has been treating with doubtful success, may be a serious 
affair, because it may involve the detection of gross ignorance 
both of the nature of the disease and the principles of sound 
practice. The man of acknowledged talent, yet who is wedded 
to his own fanciful views on many a subject of daily occurrence, 
may wish to avoid the certainty of difference of opinion when 
brought into contact with a straight-forward practitioner, who 
cares little about theoretical notions, but is guided only by the 
evidence of his senses and the testimony of experience ; and 
many of us, recalling to our recollection this and the other 
instances of illiberality, jealousy, malignity, and want of all 
professional courtesy and honour, which have'teazed and injured 
us in these communications with our professional brethren, may 
be a little averse to submit ourselves to the possible recurrence 
of them. 
These consultations, however, properly managed, might be, 
and are considered in human practice to be, very desirable and 
useful things. We will suppose that we are in attendance on a 
valuable animal; we have made ourselves perfectly masters of 
the case ; our attention has been unremitting ; but the horse is 
not doing well, and the owner, although he does not tell us so. 
