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VOL. XVII, No. 193. JANUARY 1844. New Series, No. 25. 
THE VETERINARIAN. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
THIS day our Journal enters its seventeenth anniversary. For 
the last sixteen years has it been before the public, an open record 
— and its Editors trust a faithful one — of the sayings and doings 
of the members of the profession ; and now it stands forth, in all the 
pride of sixteen volumes, charged with these (to us) valuable 
records, embodying a more comprehensive veterinary history of 
its times, and a greater collection of cases, serving us with mate- 
rials for reflection and guides for practice, than is to be found in 
any work extant, or than can be got together for some years to 
come in any future work. This we say in pride and exultation, 
not as reflecting upon ourselves more than — if so much as — upon 
those of our professional brethren who have for many a-day 
laboured along with us in the common cause of science, and some 
of whose writings will, so long as, and wherever The Veterina- 
rian is known, prove its greatest ornament and surest passport. 
When in our minds we look back sixteen years, and call to me- 
mory the circumstances attending the origin of our Journal, it 
raises a smile within us to see, despite the ominous prophecy pro- 
nounced on its birth — that “ no veterinary periodical could long 
survive for want of subject matter,” — how the work, in the hands of 
the profession, has thriven and grown, and what heaps of materials 
yet lie scattered around, awaiting only ability and industry to 
work them up, to make them last the Journal for even another 
sixteen years. 
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