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THE VETERINARIAN, JUNE 1, 1857. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. 
Cicero. 
THE RELATIONS BETWEEN EOOD AND DISEASE. 
Under the above heading a series of articles are being 
given in the e Medical Times and Gazette,* to which we 
would direct the attention of our professional brethren, as 
they contain much that is interesting to them at the present 
moment, although their application, of course, is more 
immediately to human pathology. It w T as our intention to 
have transferred them to our pages ; but their length and 
press of other matter prevent their insertion entire, and to 
abridge or condense them would lessen both their force and 
value. We may perhaps regret that so few among us have 
taken up this subject, since it is a domain that especially 
belongs to the veterinary surgeon : nevertheless the other 
branch of medicine becomes doubtlessly as much interested 
in it as ourselves, and the same indeed may be said of every 
member of the community; we are therefore glad to find 
that it has not been lost sight of. And when we add that 
the writer of the above-named articles asserts that he has 
obtained the “ w elcome assurance” that Professors Spooner 
and Simonds wdll lend him their assistance in bringing to 
light much hitherto unknown regarding the diseases of 
cattle, — “ a consummation devoutly to be wished” — it is clear 
that not only will not our profession be excluded, but we 
have grounds for our belief that from their united labours 
wfill result such an accumulation of facts as cannot fail to 
lead to the adoption of measures, cautionary and pro- 
phylactic, as wfill fully satisfy the public mind, and also 
prove the advantages that arise from an application of the 
principles of science to the prevention of the spread of 
disease, more particularly at the present time, when the “isle 
is almost frightened from its propriety.” Nor is this appre- 
