UNQUALIFIED PRACTICE. 
583 
, J. N., 
“ VETERINARY SURGEON, 
“ And Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, London , 
“ Respectfully informs the Nobility and Inhabitants of E-and 
its vicinity, that he has commenced the above profession in all its 
branches; having had considerable experience at the Veterinary 
College, London, flatters himself that, with assiduity and strict 
attention, to be found worthy of the patronage of those gentle¬ 
men who shall intrust him with their practice.” 
The facts of the case are these :—Mr. J. N., formerly a groom, 
entered at the Veterinary College at the end of January in the 
present year. He had and could have no previous knowledge of 
anatomy and physiology. Many of Mr. Coleman’s most import¬ 
ant lectures on anatomy and physiology had been delivered, and 
consequently there must have been a great deal in every subse¬ 
quent lecture difficult to be understood by him, or utterly incom¬ 
prehensible, He remained at the College a little more than four 
months; in the beginning of June he took himself off to the 
place at which he meant to settle, and he issued this elegant cir¬ 
cular, and calls himself a “ veterinary surgeon, and member of 
the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons;” and boasts of his 
“ having had considerable experience at that college.” 
This is certainly very annoying to the student who, at far 
greater expense of time and of labour, is striving to do justice to 
himself and his profession, and it is a most impudent and dishonest 
thing on the part of the author of the circular; but we know not 
what is to be done, at present at least. There is no law to pro¬ 
hibit this person from telling lies* or from practising as a veteri¬ 
nary surgeon. One thing, however, is plain enough, that his pro¬ 
fessional neighbours ,—we must not offend them by styling them 
his professional brethren ,—have not much to fear from him ; for this 
specimen of pure composition, this stream flowing from “ the well 
of English undefiled,” will shew sufficiently plainly how far he 
was qualified to profit by his “ considerable experience at the 
Veterinary College.” 
It is an interesting question, however, what is to be done to 
