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who compelled all the recalcitrant spirits to yield and to 
accomplish — much against their will, perhaps — a good work, 
whose realisation he had pursued for a long time. It mattered 
little to him that he was undeservedly excluded when it was 
formed ; he knew well that, with the claims he had acquired, 
the doors of the new society could not fail to he opened to 
him on the day when, conformably to its statutes, he should 
seek to be elected for admission amongst its members. He did 
not wait long; justice was rendered him, and from that time 
M. Leblanc became one of the most active coadjutors of this 
society, which he had certainly some right to regard as his 
work — a considerable work, truly, and which ought to have 
been for him an object of real satisfaction, as, during the twenty- 
seven years it has been founded, the Central Society of 
Veterinary Medicine has rendered to science and the profes- 
sion most important services, through the labours of its mem- 
bers, and by those, which are produced under the instigation 
of its periodical meetings. Without M. Leblanc and his 
perseverance, this institution, already so fruitful of good re- 
sults, would perhaps have been yet to be founded. 
“ It is no more than justice to attach to the name and the 
initiative of M. Leblanc the establishment of the Veterinary 
Mutual Aid and Provident Society of the Seine, of which he 
was the president. If it was not on his direct proposition 
that this society was founded, it was certainly under his 
inspiration, as for a long time previously he had prepared 
people’s minds for it by numerous publications, and even by 
an attempt which failed in a short time, though long enough 
to affirm by a good action the excellence of his principle. 
The idea was sown and fructified in due season, and M. 
Leblanc had the satisfaction of having assisted at its develop- 
ment, and to preside over it during the later years of his 
life. 
“ There was another object that he strove to accomplish 
with that constancy of mind which was one of the character- 
istic traits of his nature, but in this he was unsuccessful. He 
was desirous of obtaining for his profession the guarantee of 
a law analogous to that which assures to medical men the 
monopoly of their profession ; and it was especially in the 
name of the public interest that he demanded a guarantee 
against those who, without any study, and frequently even 
without any aptitude, exercise without hindrance the pro- 
fession of treating the diseases of the domestic animals. M. 
Leblanc spared neither time nor trouble in endeavouring to 
bring his project to a favorable issue, but all his efforts 
failed through the resistance of legislators ; success escaped 
