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“ PROFESSIONAL UNITY.” 
Gentlemen, 
We have recently heard much of “ professional unity,” 
and of the happy future when veterinarians will pull ami¬ 
cably together under one corporate body, which is to infuse 
courtesy and general good will. Only lately an editorial 
appeared in the Veterinary Journal setting forth the benefits 
which are to arise from the Highland and Agricultural Society 
suspending their veterinary examinations. With one portal to 
the profession, the editor hopefully anticipates that there will 
henceforward he “ no divided professional interests—no occa¬ 
sion for party jealousy or ill-feeling.” But whilst thus enjoin¬ 
ing brotherly amity and approving of the admission into our 
ranks of the graduates of the Highland and Agricultural 
Society a “ horse case,” Harris v. Jacobson, is reported in your 
last number in such a manner that any one reading it, being a 
stranger to the profession, could only conclude that Mr. T. A. 
Dollar, therein referred to, was in no way connected with the 
veterinary profession. I am fully aware that Mr. Dollar does 
not possess the diploma of the Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons, and holds simply the certificate of the Highland 
and Agricultural Society of Scotland; but to speak of so 
active and useful a professional brother in the manner it is 
inserted in the Vetetinarian would stigmatise him as an 
empiric. 
No testimony of mine can add to Mr. Dollar’s high pro¬ 
fessional capabilities and zeal in advancing the interests of 
his profession. 
I have written for further information regarding this case, 
which seems to me to indicate in our ranks something worse 
than “ difference of opinion,” a title under which it has 
appeared, and purpose bringing it under the notice of our 
Veterinary Medical Association as a sad illustration of the 
need of “ professional unity,” and, I might add, professional 
courtesy. Yours, very truly, 
Thomas Taylor, F.R.C.V.S. 
To the Editors of the 1 Veterinarian .’ 
