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deavors should be in any way hindered by a few money spinners 
within their own ranks; but that this is the ease is a lamentable 
fact, and it seems to the writer that their sayings and doings 
should not go unnoticed in the pages of this journal from any feel¬ 
ing of false delicacy amongst us, but that they should be shown 
up much as that very able and practical journal, The Agriculturist , 
shows up the various frauds that so hurt the honest nurserymen, 
agricultural tool makers, etc., besides whittle the farmers out of 
very.much too large a proportion of their earnings. For instance, 
there is one who writes himself M.R.C.V.S.E., and who occupies 
a rather prominent position before a certain class of the community, 
who advertises freely through the medium of the papers, and by 
circulars through druggists, harness makers, and every conceivable 
source, that he has and will sell an “ incomparable worm specific,’’ 
the u worms being utterly unable to resist their astonishing 
efficacy he also, to add still further to the mysteriousness of the ' 
thing, remarks that their preparation has been a secret amongst 
his family for the past two hundred years, and that they have 
been a family of veterinary surgeons for that time; now this last 
may or may not be true, but if it is how publicly and shamelessly 
he calls attention to the professional crookedness of his dead 
ancestors ; let us hope that even in our much enduring, but after 
all noble science there are not many such families of parasites ; 
for any medical man will declare that an honest practitioner will, 
if he discovers any new combinations of drugs, that has shown 
him by thorough trial to be better for a certain disease than any 
other that he has tried or heard of, communicate his discovery to 
his medical brethren, so that suffering life may have their suffer¬ 
ings alleviated universally by what his experience shows him to be 
the best and most speedy method. Else why the need of our medi¬ 
cal journals, to which the best minds and hardest workers con¬ 
stantly contribute their thoughts and discoveries, that they may be 
printed, and read by, and profited by, any and all of us ? And 
now to the other side, and probably the time one of this wornw 
business. The Edinburgh Veterinary College prescribes for 
worms a certain powder to be followed by a ball the formulae for 
which are as well known amongst the profession as is the name 
