or THE VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
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were rnaigre and unsatisfactory compared with theirs. The 
Editors of Th u Veterin ari an will have much pleasure in 
continuing to insert the monthly abstract of them, and will 
readily afford every facility, and lend every aid in their power. 
And now — to close this painful history— the battle has been 
thus far fought, and a certain object has been attained, at a 
cost far, far beyond its value. Needs there to be pointed out the 
step which might be, which ought to be taken ; implying, not 
the shadow of degrading concession, but, rather, being the ex- 
pression — the pledge — of good and honourable feeling and pur- 
pose. What would the heart of every honest man now prompt? 
W. Youatt. 
THE VETERINARIAN, HAY 1 , 18 ,%. 
Nc quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cn i:iu>. 
[With pleasure and with pride we adopt the following letter 
as our leading article. It had been a feeling dearly cherished, but 
deeply buried in our bosoms, — whispered not to the winds, — for 
there were those among our elder brethren who spurned us from 
their association, and at a time to which we still look back with 
a loathing that we cannot suppress, declared that “they would 
not sit with us” around our ow n — by every right, our own — board ; 
it was a feeling, we say, deeply buried in our bosom — but there 
it lived — it was nursed in our heart’s core, and now, now w r e dare 
avow it, that we had the power , and that we should glory in its 
exercise, to contribute our portion , although a little one, towards 
the honour of our common house. 
Many thanks for the kindness of our elder brother — one of our 
best beloved — and whom posterity will acknowledge as an un- 
wearied and invaluable contributor to the progress of medical 
science. Yes; we will be up and doing. We cherish no pre- 
sumptuous spirit of rivalry; but, henceforth, he who traces the 
onward march of that art with which are identified the health 
and the well-being of all who are susceptible of pleasure and of 
pain, shall be compelled to acknowledge, that the veterinary 
surgeon was not a lagger.] Edit. 
