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THE VETERINARIAN, MARCH 1, 1855. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
OUR PROSPECTS. 
We should not only do violence to our feelings, but prove 
ourselves ingrates, indeed, did we not at once express our 
thanks for the numerous kind promises of support we have 
already received from our friends. By the reiterated encou- 
ragements they have given us, we are emboldened confidently 
to hope, not only for the continued , but the increased pros- 
perity of our periodical; and our earnest endeavours shall 
be made to secure this. Whatever 6( is honest and of good 
report,” that we will strive to accomplish, believing that by 
so acting, we shall, as journalists, gain all that we are 
desirous of possessing. Nor have we any fear of being 
charged with overweening self-confidence, when we express 
our well-grounded conviction that an improvement will be 
effected in the work generally. This, indeed, we are con- 
vinced must be the case, from the nature of the support we 
have been so kindly assured will be.given to us. Fresh facts, 
too, connected with medicine, bearing on Veterinary Science, 
shall, as we become conversant with them, be recorded by 
us ; while it will be our duty and our privilege — for they are 
correlatives — to seek out from contemporary publications, 
that kind of information which will both profit and interest 
our readers. To each section, therefore, our earnest atten- 
tion will be given. And when we reflect on the rapid advance 
which is taking place in the collateral sciences, and the 
discoveries that are being made in physiology and pathology, 
more especially by the aid of the microscope, and the appli- 
cation of the principles of chemistry — whence has resulted a 
simplification of the treatment of diseases, and a more inti- 
mate acquaintance with their nature — we cannot for a moment 
