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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
OUR PROFESSIONAL FRIENDS IN THE ARMY. 
It is a subject often pressed upon us — the little done for 
the profession by those who would really appear to have the 
greatest amount of leisure. At once the conviction will 
arise in the mind that those referred to are our brethren in the 
army, both in Pier Majesty’s and the Honorable East India 
Company’s service ; before whom a splendid field lies open, 
and especially to the latter. 
It is our gratification to know that from among the mem- 
bers of the profession, in both of these departments, we can 
select a goodly number of friends, a few of whom have, since 
we undertook the editorship of this Journal, given us abun- 
dant proofs of their sincerity and kindness. But where are 
the many? We could remind some of as yet unfulfilled 
promises, but there is plenty of time for them to make ample 
amends, and we will wait patiently. 
In the present number we are glad to perceive an addition 
is made to the list by a communication from Mr. J. W. 
Jeffery, V. S. 4th Bengal Cavalry, in which he says, “ You 
must be well aware that veterinary surgeons in India know 
much more about the Cannabis Indicus, and also many other 
drugs that are not used in Europe, than can be known at 
home respecting them.” This position we are quite ready 
and willing to concede, and do hope that our professional 
brethren will, from time to time, forward to us the dis- 
coveries they have made by experiments, or the knowledge 
they have acquired from having been placed in another 
sphere for the employment of their talents, coupled with 
that which may have been obtained by them from the 
practice of those whom they have supplanted, namely, the 
native horse-doctors ; by whom agents were doubtlessly used 
of which they were previously ignorant, and from the intro- 
duction of some of which into our materia medica, it is 
possible that our power over diseases might be increased, and 
our usefulness correspondingly extended. Will a few more 
of our friends, out of the many, take this “ gentle hint?” 
