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THE VETERINARIAN, APRIL 1, 1837. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
The Veterinary Medical Association has now been in full 
working more than four months. It is natural for those who 
were most concerned in its establishment to pause, now and 
then, and contemplate the result of their labour. No fear or 
misgivings, but, certainly, some reminiscences of a former and 
excellent society, and of the ruin to which it was hastening, 
caused some of us occasionally to pause, and to wish that impera- 
tive duty had not imposed upon us the task in which we were 
engaged. When, however, it daily became more and more ma- 
nifest, that good, and to an extent that not one of us dared to 
anticipate, was rapidly growing out of evil, and that an Associa- 
tion was forming and spreading on every side, worthy of the 
profession to which we belonged, and promising to secure the 
honour and rapidly effect the improvement of our art, then we 
indulged ourselves in heartfelt exultation, and began to receive 
our best and dearest reward. 
The meetings of the new society have now uninterruptedly con- 
tinued since the middle of November; and half of the first ses- 
sion has past. What has been the result? On no one evening 
has there been the slightest manifestation of ill-feeling ; the Pre- 
sident’s hammer has not once been heard, nor has the theatre 
been disgraced by one cry to “order.” This is highly gratify- 
ing, and it is very honourable to an assembly composed chiefly 
of young men. 
In the first two months several of the most talented of the me- 
tropolitan veterinarians were present; and the records of the As- 
sociation will sufficiently testify the readiness with which they 
mingled in the debate, and the important information which was 
elicited from them. It will be sufficient to refer to the discus- 
sions on Influenza. So highly were they estimated by the agri- 
cultural and sporting public, that they were transcribed, nearly 
