EDITORIAL REMARKS. 
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As to the policy or advisability of apprenticeship as a preparation 
for or an indispensable to the efficient practice of our art, that is a 
question which must merge into, or at all events wait upon, the 
question of legality. If the Council possess no right to enact such 
laws—and that is our present opinion—it would be folly to enter 
into discussion as to their expediency or utility. 
If, however, the Council be denied the power of making laws 
interfering with the curriculum of study at the “ colleges” or schools 
as established upon record in the Charter —and which we, for our 
own part, do not feel inclined to dispute—yet are such powers very 
clearly laid down in the Charter as authorize the Council to pre¬ 
scribe their own “ manner of examining students who shall have been 
educated at the Royal Veterinary College of London, or the Veteri¬ 
nary College of Edinburgh, or such other veterinary college, &c. 
and also to regulate “ the nature and extent of such examinations.” 
So that, after all, the Council possess the power in their own hands, 
though it is in another form, of shutting the door against all can¬ 
didates for admission into the corporate body who may not, ac¬ 
cording to any estimate of acquirements they may choose to set up, 
appear to them qualified to enter into practice. And so long as 
the Council have it in their power, through their examining com¬ 
mittee, of erecting their own standard of qualification, we really do 
not, for our own part, understand why it is they trouble themselves 
so much about where or by whom or how the candidates coming 
before them have received their education. 
It will be seen in this and our last impression that Mr. Hay¬ 
cock, of Huddersfield, whose name has a high standing in some 
former numbers of our Journal, has re-commenced his “contri¬ 
butions,” in a series of articles containing cases and observations 
on some of the principal or least understood diseases of horses; 
which, from their evident faithfulness of design, from their accurate 
and graphic execution, veritably deserve the title of “ portraitures 
after nature.” There is no branch of our art more imperatively 
calling upon us for improvement than veterinary pathology; and 
that practitioner alone will cultivate it with any successful results 
who finds he can give his mind, and his body too, up to patient, 
