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Regretting that I should have found this explanation necessary and in 
conclusion, I might remark that all these changes that some gentlemen 
deem necessary for the benefit of the profession cannot, I consider, at 
the present time be carried out. The profession, though young in this 
country, occupies as good a position as it does in the mother country, 
and since my residence in Canada it has certainly made good steps on¬ 
ward. So, like a young child, let us creep before we can walk, with the 
old motto, “ Excelsior,” for a cry. 
With every desire that good feeling should exist throughout the 
profession, and thanking you for your kind indulgence in my inroad on 
your space, I remain, 
Yours obediently, 
A. F. Coleman, V. S., Ontario. 
Ames, Iowa, August 5, 1877. 
Editor Review : 
I am just in receipt of the August number of the Review, and 
wish to testify to the very valuable character of its contents. It is a 
cause for no small degree of gratification to see that much of the mat¬ 
ter is furnished by those who were my former associates and class¬ 
mates in the American Veterinary College, and who now hold its 
diploma. When I remember the many enthusiastic members of the 
profession I used to meet in New York, I realize how much easier it is 
to keep up the fire when one has the professional head of the brethren 
to stand by. To those who are congregated along the rim of the con¬ 
tinent where the profession has acquired a respectable foothold, the 
spectacle presented by a solitary Veterinary surgeon in the midst of 
thousands of square miles of ring-bones and spavins, whole counties of 
colic, and continents of hog cholera, must excite mingled emotions of 
sympathy and envy. Here the peaceful smoke of the firing iron curls 
its fantastic shapes in honor of his name alone, and he bears all unaided 
the reproach from the granger of the back county, when he awakes in 
the morning, and finds that one of his mother porkers has committed 
infanticide during the night, and no Veterinary surgeon was there to 
prevent it. 
There are some of the experiences of the Western practitioner, if 
not instructive, might be somewhat amusing to the members of the pro¬ 
fession in the older districts. 
Here is a specimen case : Early in May last I was called to see a 
