MR. WALLEY IN REPLY TO MR. HUNTING. 
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stiffness of the tail and limbs continued for more than three 
weeks before it passed off^ which it did all at once. As tetanus 
is, to my observation, very rare in the bovine species, perhaps 
the same may apply to my professional brethren, and there¬ 
fore renders this case more interesting. It was clearly a case 
of idiopathic tetanus, there being no sign whatever of any 
lesion externally. 
MR. WALLEY IN REPLY TO MR. HUNTING. 
As my name has been brought forward in a letter in your 
last issue, I deem it my duty to answer the said letter (in 
some part), and with your permission will do so. 
I had thought that my endeavour to throw light on the 
matter of veterinary education had been ignored by my pro¬ 
fessional brethren, but to my relief I find such is not the case, 
through the kindness of Mr. Hunting of Mayfair; before 
alluding to that portion of his letter referring more particularly 
to myself, I will speak of the subject about which we are all 
so interested, viz. education ; and I hope Mr. Hunting will 
allow that one has as much right to an opinion as another. 
One word about the apprenticeship system. I am afraid Mr. 
Hunting has been brought up under one of the Bluebeards 
whose portraits he so clearly delineates, hence his horror of 
the apprenticeship system ; if I am wrong in this supposition, 
then I fail to see his qualification for committing to writing 
such an unfair and ungenerous description of pupil and mas¬ 
ter. That there are masters whose only idea in taking a pupil 
is to save themselves drudgery and toil, and to obtain the 
fees, I grant; but there are not so many as he would lead us 
to suppose ; and as to the pupil being made to give draughts, 
make up physic, &c., I would ask, of what use is he in a 
sick stable or cow-shed, where he has dangerous cases under 
treatment, if he cannot do these better than the groom or cow¬ 
herd ? I imagine he would cut a sorry figure if he could not 
administer a draught, or give a ball. 
Mr. Hunting also speaks of the overbearing character of 
the practical student at college. Those who in glass houses 
live, should not, you know, throw stones.” So far from the 
practical student being the first to parade his knowledge pro 
hono publico, it is the theoretical or mushroom-grown student 
who plumes himself upon the extent of his acquirements. I 
