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licentiate from a board of examiners, and that will be a “ cathartic 
ball” a little over “ six in strength,” which will purge the indi¬ 
gestible, unscientific, and parasitic empirics out of this great 
country of yours, and let them decay so as never to be brought 
in existence again under the same form. You ought not “to blote ” 
the country with this empiricism, but clean it out, and make them 
turn up the “whites of their eyes as if scared,” and leave “ them 
lie down spread out” to paw no more, and probably the “ mem¬ 
branes of their eyelids” will be paler and {hebrisket open to leave 
more “ blood from this cutting.” 
Veterinarians, physicians, surgeons, and laity, go to the Legis¬ 
lature, and see that this “ band uniting the colon” of this country 
shall be kept in place by the educated veterinarians, and have a 
post mortem examination of this empiricism and quackery, and see 
that the “liver is sound,” and make a line of demarcation, “an 
interstitial infiltration,” (if I may use the term) between the so-called 
horse doctors, and educated veterinarians. Then your horses and 
cattle will be kept in a healthy condition, and provide the country 
with good “beef and porker,” and you will provide against “the 
colon” of your agricultural interests getting “rottcn”and the “bow. 
els black.” By so doing you will be able to have veterinarians to 
diagnosticate diseases, and save the country millions of dollars; 
and you can then prognosticate a country that will be unsurpassed 
in veterinary science, the worm destroyers taking a back track 
and no longer destroying the profession with their insidious 
parasitic influence. 
Truth. 
Editor American Veterinary Review: 
Dear Sir.—For some time past the great advantages gained by 
studying our profession in European schoolshas been loudly vaunted 
in the pages of both your journal and those of a leading sporting 
paper; the prolific pen of one writer having been busily engaged 
in attempting to establish their superiority. A sceptical profession 
may not have appreciated the excellence claimed for these schools 
by the erudite Billings (who can at best be acquainted with but 
one side of the question), and I doubt if his argument will be 
