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deposits, to control the process of reparation, to obliterate 
sinuses, to rectify perverted nutrition, or to diminish abnormal 
sensibility, their value will be at once appreciated. 
[To le continued .) 
THE VETERINARY PROFESSION. 
By R. H. Dyer, M.R.C.V.S., Waterford. 
Another session has terminated, and it is seen that the 
London College has launched not less than forty-two new 
members into the field of veterinary science; Edinburgh has 
furnished thirteen, in addition to seven from the New College. 
On looking to the following page or two of the last number 
of The Veterinarian , we also find no less than thirty-six persons 
holding the Highland Society’s certificate; nine or ten of 
whom are, however, legitimate members of the profession, 
having passed the Board of Examiners nominated by the 
Council. These names therefore appear in duplicate. The 
grand total thus seems to be eighty-eight. These gentlemen are 
now seeking the suffrages of the public as veterinary surgeons; 
some,doubtless, in one capacity, and some in another; or, in 
other words, a few will be content to associate themselves with 
veterinary surgeons in full practice, whilst others will at once 
embark upon the ocean of life, and take their stand as lega¬ 
lised veterinary surgeons, soliciting favours where they 
can be best found. 
With schools such as these one w r ould feel disposed to think 
they could furnish the public with a sufficient number of 
practitioners, without adding another to its list, and that a 
college too. We have recently been informed there is to be 
a college started in Dublin, under the patronage of the Royal 
Dublin Society. Right glad should w^e be to see established 
schools for promoting the education of the people upon veteri¬ 
nary subjects; but 1 am far from believing another college 
is necessary for students of veterinary medicine. I have re¬ 
sided in Ireland twelve years, and I may state without, I 
hope, being considered vain, that I have generally kept my eyes 
open, not to my own interests merely, but to the wants and 
necessities of others. I have long and anxiously sought in vain 
to establish a <c cattle practice” in this country. I have proposed 
every sort of plan in order to induce owners of cattle to em¬ 
ploy a qualified man. I have gone so far as to offer to see cases 
