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CORRESPONDENCE. 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. He edited the An¬ 
nates de Briixelles, published a work on the Elements of Anat¬ 
omy and Physiology, translated Roll’s Practice into French, 
and wrote a variety of pamphlets on subjects relating to the 
diseases of domestic animals. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
GRADUATES AND NON-GRADUATES. 
Dear Sir, —Inclosed I hand you three dollars for the 
Review for 1890. I am much pleased with the magazine. I 
have been practising veterinary surgery for over thirty years. 
I traveled over these prairies when they were thinly settled 
in company with an itinerant Methodist preacher, he in 
search of the lost sheep of Israel, and I in hunt of fistulated 
horses. We both met with varied success. He was more 
lucky in finding, but I had more luck in redeeming those I 
did find. 
It seems to me that some of your correspondents stand in 
terrible fear of non-graduates, and are urging stringent legis¬ 
lation to protect them in the practice of their profession. 
Does Mr. Bonner, when he drives Maud S. out, tremble with 
fear lest some drayman may whip up and pass him on the 
road ? Does the man with real, solid attainment in any pro¬ 
fession, and having within him a consciousness of ability and 
power, ask legislative protection from competition? 
It might open the eyes of some of these weaklings who 
are begging to be protected from the rivalry of non-graduates 
if they were to visit the offices of some of them in this 
western country, and take a look through their libraries, 
where are to be found all the standard works of both Europe 
and America on veterinary science. But what would still 
more surprise them would be to see them daily effecting 
cures of diseases considered by the graduates as incurable, 
for instance, puerperal apoplexy and tetanus. If it would 
not be presuming too much I would here give their methods 
of treating—and curing—these diseases in nine out of ten 
