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THE VETERINARIAN, JANUARY 1, 1853. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
Whether Professor Simonds prove to be fortunate or 
unfortunate in the suggestions he has put forward in his 
“ Introductory Address ” — in our last Number — for reforma- 
tion and improvement in Veterinary concerns, we may safely 
give the Professor the credit, beforehand, of being impelled to 
an undertaking (which may turn out acceptable to others or 
not) by no other motive save a laudable desire to benefit that 
profession of which he is himself so exalted a member. Since 
Coleman made the rapid strides he did, after St. Bel had laid 
the foundation stone, nothing has been done of any moment 
to alter the constitution of the Veterinary College. Its various 
members have been growing, of course more conspicuously 
in some cases than in others, in the public estimation. 
Since the time, indeed, when the question was raised among 
military authorities, and was by them made matter of official 
inquiry — whether the appointment of Veterinary Surgeons to the 
army had been productive of good or not to the service ? — the vete- 
rinary art has greatly advanced in public favour. With such in- 
crease of popularity, the profession seemed to have attained its 
acme of status in society, when the obtainment of the charter 
opened fresh avenues of advancement ; some of which were 
quickly entered, whilst others presented obstacles in the 
way of prosecution which hitherto have resisted all attempts 
to overcome them. Now, however, that the melancholy 
differences in the profession, which were the main causes of 
want of successful enterprise, are found to be, in part at least, 
subsiding, and there appears between the two more influ- 
ential parties a prospect of perfect reunion, Professor Simonds 
avails himself, so far, of a happy moment to bring forward 
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