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swarming with myriads of insects and other animalculae. To 
this cause, principally, we attribute the fact, that, in low coun¬ 
tries abounding with fens and marshes, hundreds of valuable ani¬ 
mals are annually destroyed, whose stomachs and intestines, 
when examined, are filled with botts.” 
By this time our readers are, like ourselves, perfectly dis¬ 
gusted with such a barefaced fraud on the poor village farrier 
and the public. It is really scandalous, that, when we have 
long been struggling, and latterly with success, to vindicate the 
claims of our profession to the consideration of our medical bre¬ 
thren and of well-educated men, publications like those of John 
Hinds and Ephraim Blaine, one impudently entitled “ the 
Veterinary Surgeon”—the type, the beau ideal of what we ought 
to be,—and the other pretended to be written by a veterinary sur¬ 
geon of thirty years’ standing, should (if they could for a moment 
be considered to be ours, and on some these titles will impose) throw 
us more than a century back. In the name of our indignant pro¬ 
fession we do protest against these worse than ignorant, these 
mischievous and murderous works; and we protest against the 
assumption of names that do not exist, and the forgery of others 
we have long been taught to value. John Hinds and Ephraim 
Blaine belong to other schools. They proceeded not from us, 
and they are not of us. We would put it as a matter of con¬ 
sideration to certain publishers,—a matter of calculation and of 
money,—whether they can, in the long run, hope to be popular 
in our rapidly increasing profession, and that their books will sell 
among us; or, rather, whether a brand will not be set upon them, 
when they are thus stabbing at our reputation and our honour. 
Sporting HJurteprutrrtwr, 
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THE GUY STAKES. 
WOOD, BART. V. ATKINS. 
This cause excited considerable interest in the sporting world. 
It was an action brought at the Warwick Assizes, on Monday the 
8th of August, by Sir Mark Wood against Mr. Atkins, the clerk of 
the course for the Warwick races, to recover the sum of GOO/., the 
amount of the Guy Stakes, run for at these races last year. The 
Duke of Richmond, who was subpoenaed as a witness, was on 
the bench. Other members of the Jockey Club were also pre¬ 
sent. 
