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CORRESPONDENCE. 
upon the very worst form of quackery which besets our pro¬ 
fession, “ quackery in the ranks of the qualified .” 
Veterinary medicine in America is, to-day, advancing with 
rapid strides toward that higher plane of usefulness occupied by 
kindred sciences, and were it not hampered by the influences of 
the evil practices of the past, and by the greedy avarice of the 
present, its progress would be even more rapid than it is. 
The simple fact that many unqualified men are practicing 
our profession is not an insurmountable, nor, in fact, a very serious 
obstacle to our advancement; neither are we in want of an ap¬ 
preciative public. But when we look to our own ranks, and be¬ 
hold the flagrant violations of principle, preached every day by 
some of our members, outside quackery sinks into insignificance 
in quality, if not in quantity, by the comparison, and we no longer 
wonder that our sister professions are so slow to extend the hand 
of fellowship and wish us success. 
They are ever ready and waiting to give to us all our just 
dues, the moment we have satisfied them that self-aggrandizement 
and mercenariness has been subverted to the interests of true 
science. 
Honest worth, when rightly directed, usually receives from the 
American people its full reward, and as surely and justly do the 
bickerings, instigated by the success of a rival, meet with the con¬ 
tempt of all. There is too much of this petty jealousy—that de¬ 
testable remnant of quackery—existing in our ranks to day, and no 
matter how high they may stand in public opinion,-or in their pro¬ 
fession, at the present time, all who stoop to participate in these 
disgraceful factious controversies, need live but a short time to find 
their names in the oblivion of their own production, for there are 
young workers coming into the field, who will win the race in 
which the older members have so heavily handicapped themselves 
with the weight of these nauseous dissensions. 
Another evil which is not, as yet, so fully appreciated by the 
public, yet is more widespread and equally as injurious to the true 
science, is the deprecable practice of editing a “ Veterinary col 
umn” in a “ sporting” or “ agricultural” paper. This is nothing 
more nor less than what might be called aristocratic quackery 
