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THE VETERINARIAN, FEBRUARY 1, 1853. 
Ne quid falsi dicere auaeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
To the replies we made, pretty well seriatim , to Professor 
Simonds’s suggestion for reformation in our last impression, 
we would in this add some remarks on the present status 
and future prospects of the Veterinary Profession as a char- 
tered corporate body. All our experience in civil life appears 
to have demonstrated to us, that in spite of the barriers which, 
unfortunately, do attach to professional advancement, yet 
are the practitioners of our art themselves treated and respected 
in society in some such ratio as they, from their merits and 
bearing, are found to deserve. Hardly any individual among 
us, whose educational attainments are passable, and whose 
conduct in life is respectable, has any one else but himself to 
blame if he be not held in the estimation a professional man 
ought, or can be expected, under the circumstances, to be 
held in his situation. A medical man may at first look down 
upon him as being a horse (and not a man) doctor; but 
when he comes to find that, “ horse-doctor 99 as he is, he is 
capable of rising in society to a degree of scientific eminence 
approximating to where he himself stands, he will blink at the 
object of the other’s art, and make an associate of one — in 
the country at least — who can not only act nowise in oppo- 
sition to himself, but who is really equal to hold converse 
with him on medical and philosophical topics. After this 
manner, likewise, wdll the Veterinarian come in contact with 
the solicitor ; whilst the clergyman of the village (which we 
will take to be the scene of adventure) will not uncharitably 
avoid the company of a man whom his equals find reason for 
his professional conduct and acquirements to respect. With 
the sporting man in his neighbourhood, the Veterinarian will 
