HUMAN AND VETERINARY SCIENCE. 
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HUMAN AND VETERINARY SCIENCE. 
From the Medical Record, September 25, 1875. 
UNSUCCESSFUL PRACTITIONERS. 
Dear Sir: —To enter into the medical profession with bril¬ 
liant hopes, given by good ft and thorough education, with much 
enthusiasm, patience, and perseverence, the whole backed up by a 
few thousand dollars, and meet with the disappointments that 
“ Diploma ” has had in practice, you must admit is more than 
sufficient to excuse his long letter with its series of complaints. 
He may console himself in thinking that he is probably not the 
only one whose hopes have been thus deceived, as no doubt the 
number of physicians exceed by a great amount the requirements 
of our population. But if such is the case, he may ask, What is 
he to do ? Medicine he likes ; study he enjoys ; and he hates to 
give up the medical profession, for which he has already done so 
much. I will say to him, then, there is a sister branch of medi¬ 
cine which is almost entirely overlooked in this country—which 
counts but very few amongst its regular members—whose interest 
is not less than the one he belongs to—whose scientific connections 
are equal to it—whose influences are no less beneficial (though in 
a different point of view), and whose financial rewards will, I 
have no doubt, be satisfactory to the most sanguine ; in other words, 
let “ Diploma ” and his like unfortunate confreres give attention 
to Comparative Medicine, to Veterinary Medicine; let him become 
a scientific, graduated veterinarian, and I feel certain that in a 
very short time he will write you a different letter from that which 
was published in the last number of The Record. 
Yours truly, 
M. D. V. S. 
From the Medical Record, October 16, 1875. 
SUCCESSFUL PRACTITIONERS. 
Mr. Editor: — I have been much amused, and I hope edified, 
by the perusal of the letters of your correspondents “ Diploma” 
