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TITLE OF VETERINARY SURGEON. 
has likewise a good bed given him, and is left comfortable in 
a stable of a proper temperature. The old plan of keeping 
him stoved up in a hot stable to prevent his taking cold, 
and giving him quantities of alterative medicine, such as 
antimony, sulphur, &c., is very properly not now considered 
essential, or even necessary. Neither is the exhibition of the 
three physic balls of the old farrier, nor the spring or autumn 
bleeding, called for. These are notions which, now-a-days, 
are exploded; and during my daily avocation I find myself, 
instinctively as it were, gradually narrowing the expedients 
ordinarily resorted to, for it is an axiom in science that all 
power to be effective must be concentrated. My method of 
treatment partakes more of general principles, resulting from 
observation and experience, which are materially assisted by 
bringing into my service the sepometer, the thermometer, 
and hygrometer, the uses and importance of which I shall 
comment upon in my next paper. Truly may it be said that 
I burn with admiration as I witness the grand but simple 
power which we can bring to bear upon disease by attention 
to these matters. 
( To be continued .) 
ON THE TITLE OF VETERINARY SURGEON. 
By Another “ Provincial.” 
The pages of your journal have on several occasions con¬ 
tained some sensible allusions to the title of veterinary sur¬ 
geon, and to the unfairness with which the title is assumed 
by the charlatan or quack. We must all regret this, and 
sigh for a remedy. 
But whilst I admit the force of the arguments of your 
correspondents, “Fiat Justicia” and “ Provincial,” I cannot 
overlook the fact that many members of our profession con¬ 
descend to unite with the practice of veterinary medicine and 
surgery the callings of a horse-breaker, a horse-dealer, or 
that of a landlord of a fourth- or fifth-rate tavern. It is such 
amalgamations as these which bring discredit on our pro¬ 
fession, and hence it is that a gentleman amongst us is the 
exception and not the rule. And though we complain of so 
many who, to the great injury of the graduated members of 
the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, usurp the title 
which exclusively belongs to them, it must be allowed that 
equal injury and injustice is done to the more respectable 
