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body, as the uterine horn, even in a delicate patient, if the 
operation be scientifically performed under anaesthetics ? 
5th. Why should such extreme care be observed that the 
parietal wound be wholly within the linea alba, -where it is 
well known fibrous tissue predominates and where healing by 
first intention is a result seldom gratifying the operator ? 
I quite agree with the writer that nothing enhances the 
surgeon’s reputation as do skillfully performed operations, 
but doubtless, like many others, think the infrequency of this 
operation in the hands of practitioners due less, very much 
less, to their not being competent to skillfully perform the 
operation, than to good reasons (deep reasons), one of the least 
of which is, it is an operation which may and has been greatly 
abused by being indiscriminately practiced. 
I fear unless our friend can and will place scientific answers 
opposite these questions submitted, his “star” as a scientific 
surgeon in this age may have set. 
Frank FI. Miller, VS. 
REGULARS AND IRREGULARS. 
Editor Review : 
Inclosed I hand you three dollars for the renewal of my 
subscription to the Review, which I find to be indispensable, 
although so many of its writers are clamoring for a law to 
throttle all irregular practitioners. 
The great solicitude of these men for the protection of the 
poor, simple-minded public would be pathetic, as well as 
sympathetic, could we eliminate from it a vague suspicion that 
this solicitude is not unmixed with a faint desire for self-pro¬ 
tection from these same irregulars, many of whom acquired 
their knowledge in the school of practice before the veterin¬ 
ary colleges had existence. 
It is a terrible thing on the public for these irregulars to 
tend and cure their neighbors’ sick animals ; but we hear no 
denunciations of the regulars who are going about delivering 
street lectures and selling quack remedies, the formulas of 
which are kept secret. 
To stop this species of writing and law making, would it 
