THE EDITOR TO THE READER. 
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muscle before the will begins to exert its power. It is thus 
alone that we can account for the perfect act of deglutition the 
moment the animal is born. 
We shall better pursue this subject in our next lecture, when 
the tenth, or great spinal organic nerve, will come under consi- 
deration. 
THE VETERINARIAN, JANUARY \, 1837. 
— 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.-— Cicero. 
We meet the readers of The Veterinarian, if not with 
unalloyed, yet with great pleasure, on the commencement of the 
tenth year of its existence. That we have been compelled to 
occupy a few of our pages with the correspondence between 
ourselves and Mr. Clark, we regret ; yet we are confident of the 
forgiveness of our subscribers, and the contributors to the value 
of our Journal, for their honour as well as our own was impli- 
cated in the unfounded charge brought against us by that gen- 
tleman. To their decision we now confidently leave the matter 
in dispute. 
The arrangement of our Journal is materially altered. A part 
of it is given to a full, yet, we trust, not tedious report of the 
debates at the meetings of the London Veterinary Medical As- 
sociation. The discussion on the nature and treatment of the 
present Epidemic, and the commencement of the excellent paper 
of Mr. Morton on some of the energetic Poisons, afford sufficient 
illustration of the benefit which will accrue to the student and to 
the profession from the labours of such a society. Who cannot 
see the desirable and important consequences which must neces- 
sarily result from its establishment and working; and coming 
to us, by and by, in such a shape as to constitute a full apology 
for the present quietude, and patience, and good feeling of the 
one party, and exciting no unpleasant notion of compulsion 
or degradation in the mind of the other ? The Veterinary Me- 
dical Association has only to pursue its present course, honestly 
devoted to the investigation of subjects illustrative of veterinary 
science, turning not aside to the right hand or the left, whatever 
may be the seduction, whatever the annoyance ; and not many 
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