PROFESSOR COLEMAN AND THE EDITOR. 
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Now, confessing that for every communication which does not 
bear the name of the author I am answerable—(I do not, how¬ 
ever, believe that there is one),—and that for every leading article 
also to which the initial D, or K, or P is not appended, I am 
answerable, and acknowledge it to be mine (and every reader 
of The Veterinarian has long understood this), I pub¬ 
licly call on Professor Coleman to prove the charge which he has 
brought against me. 
The Professor follows up his attack, and gives his foe no 
rest or quarter. 1 have been told,” says he, ‘^of letters re¬ 
ceived from those who have been sent into the country unin¬ 
structed in the diseases of cattle and sheep, that would make 
one’s heart bleed. I should like to see one of these heart-bleed¬ 
ing or heart-breaking letters. I acknowledge that I have not 
any compunctious visitings about the matter.” 
In a private conversation with the Professor, and when 1 was 
speaking to him of the injustice of sending a young fellow into 
the country totally ignorant of the diseases of the animals that 
would form a considerable proportion of his patients; and the 
disgrace, and loss of practice, which he would inevitably sustain, 
Mr. Coleman was disposed to laugh at me. I told him that I 
had letters in my possession which would make his heart bleed. 
He sneered at me then, and he now repeated that sneer in his in¬ 
troductory lecture. I will reply in language which I used many 
years ago, and then not labouring under any feelings of irritation. 
It formed part of wj/ introductory lecture in 1828. I never met 
with a veterinary surgeon in the country who did not express his 
deep and bitter sense of the inconvenience he had felt, and the 
loss he had sustained, both in reputation and emolument, from 
being sent into life ignorant of a very important part of his 
practice. During the course of his veterinary education he had 
heard little or nothing of the diseases of cattle, the symptoms 
by which they are distinguished, the causes by which they are 
produced, or the treatment which they require. He has just 
arrived at the place of his destination. A wealthy agriculturist, 
whose good opinion it is of the utmost importance for him to 
acquire, calls uj)on him. A sad disease has broken out in my 
dairy,” says lie, “ and I have lost several valuable beasts. I 
