THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
V Nn'w IX> NOVEMBER, 1856. 
Fourth Series, 
No. 23. 
THE INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS, 
DELIVERED BY 
Professor Simonds, 
AT THE ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
Session 1856-57. 
Gentlemen, — By our presence here to-day we are forcibly 
reminded that another cycle of time has been completed — 
another year has passed, which will ever be memorable as 
giving to the world the blessings of peace, and the opening 
up of new hopes and prospects to the arts and sciences, and 
ours among the number. With the outbreak of the war, 
urgent demands were made on the patriotism of the nation, 
and fresh claims upon the services of our profession. Right 
nobly were these responded to ; and the number of veterinary 
surgeons who hastened forward to the post of duty and of 
danger was found to be fully ample to supply all the pressing 
wants of both the cavalry and the artillery. For me to 
recount the noble deeds done by them on the battle-field, or 
their devotedness to the practice of their profession, evinced 
under the most trying circumstances, would be to select one 
or two individuals for commendation at the expense of others 
equally brave and equally zealous in the discharge of their 
onerous duties. Suffice to say that, as a body, they not only 
merited but received the approbation of their commanding 
officers* as likewise of the Veterinary Surgeon-General and 
the Senior Veterinary Surgeon to the artillery, with whom their 
appointments chiefly rested. On this pressing necessity the 
science of veterinary medicine stood out in bold relief, and 
all were alike ready to bear testimony to its value. We have 
here a proof that the more extended its operations become, 
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