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seton, and who never took off or put on a shoe in his life; who 
will send balls of aloes into the rumen of cattle, at the hazard 
of producing the suspension of rumination, and turn them out in 
the cold in hoose, to certain destruction? Or what pledge have 
we of the competency of him who is examined only by medical 
men, who know little of comparative anatomy and physiology, 
and nothing at all of comparative pathology, and by their pro¬ 
fessors, who, previously and long knowing the candidates, and the 
peculiar direction of the studies, and the peculiar forte of each, 
must be sadly puzzled themselves how to act impartially, and 
could, if they were base enough to do it, pass or reject whom they 
pleased, without any palpable partiality. 
These are some of the circumstances that have retarded the 
progress of the veterinary practitioner, and rendered it sometimes 
so difficult even for those who deserve well, to obtain due esti¬ 
mation among their employers, and among their brethren of the 
medical profession. They have much unnecessary up-hill work 
to do before they reach their just level; but they do at length 
reach it, except in such a case as Newmarket; and perhaps having 
forced their way to public confidence, they are, probably, the 
more esteemed on account of the deficiencies of their brethren. 
There are, however, many other things which have retarded 
the progress of our art, and to which we shall refer at no dis¬ 
tant time, unless some of our intelligent correspondents will take 
up the subject, and give us the result of their experience. -They 
would confer much obligation on us, and benefit their profession 
by so doing. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utiie, quid non.— Hok. 
Traite EUmentaire de Mature Medicale , et Pharmacologie 
Veterinaire; par M. Moiroud. Paris, 1831. 
[Continued from p. 120.] 
We continue our analysis of this work, not as embodying our 
opinion of the action of the various medicaments,—far from it; 
but as putting our readers in possession of the Materia Medica 
of the French School. 
