UNQUALIFIED PRACTICE. 
we say, to put down these mushroom men; but there is a power, 
that of public opinion, which may be called into considerable and 
powerful exercise. It is now a law of the veterinary college, that 
a young man must reside there one or two years, according to his 
previous opportunities for improvement, “ before he can be ad¬ 
mitted to an examination before the medical committee. 77 There 
are many young men who can ill afford this; and yet they and 
their families diminish their little resources, and seriously incon¬ 
venience themselves, to obtain the regular and honourable diploma. 
It is a serious injury to them if an idler and a blockhead can go 
from the college in four months, and dub himself “ a member of 
the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, London/ 7 and leave it 
to the slow, although sure, test of time to detect the imposition; and 
they have a right to look to the college for protection and redress. 
He who enforces, and properly enforces, the lengthened residence, 
is bound in honour to those from whom he exacts it to denounce 
the men who impudently or fraudulently evade the regulation. The 
public notification of the plain matter of fact, that such a person 
had resided but so many months at the college, and therefore was 
incompetent to practise, should follow his attempt to practise. 
This should be published in the newspaper which has the greatest 
circulation in his neighbourhood ; or there should be some equally 
public and effectual announcement of the name of the pretender. 
This should come from head-quarters. It is an act of imperative 
justice to those who are honourably striving to qualify themselves 
for their profession. 
When a few of these fraudulent pretenders had been thus 
shewn up, a young man would pause, and calculate the risk he 
ran; or, rather, when a few had been rightly exposed, none 
would afterwards dare to assume a name to which they were not 
entitled. If the heads of our profession would reflect a little on 
this matter, we think that they would not fail to see what they 
might do, and what they ought to do. 
Mr. Coleman refuses to gave certificates of attendance at the 
Veterinary College, and has, we think, been somewhat unjustly 
blamed for so doing. He says that many pupils would place un¬ 
due value on the certificate, and would use it as a kind of testi- 
