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instituted, of a kindred and yet a different character, composed of 
practitioners as well as pupils, and by which the improvement of 
the veterinary art will be more effectually promoted : — yet many, 
and the writer among the number, will remember with regret the 
old “ Students' Society.” 
And what shall the “ faithful narrator’’ say to the message he 
has lately received from the Committee? Why, that they are 
very naughty, outrageous boys, and deserve a good castigation ; 
but that whenever they make the amende — how ? — by enabling 
him once more to she\Y to the world that the London Veterinary 
Medical Society is worthy of the profession to which it be- 
longs — he will forget all grievances, and zealously co-operate 
with them in effecting the prosperity of that Society and the im- 
provement of our art. 
One word more: — a considerable portion of this number, and 
far more than the Editors wished, has been devoted to this un- 
pleasant affair: the interest of our general readers has not, how- 
ever, been forgotten. The cases of Paracentesis Caeci, et Abdo- 
minis, we regard as invaluable : the former as the record of the 
first operation of the kind performed by a British veterinarian — - 
the latter, as proving that our patient ought never to be aban- 
doned, although the first or even the fourth operation may not 
have produced permanent relief. The paper on the exhibition 
of Cantharides in certain cases of CEdema accompanied by De- 
bility is an important one ; and we are glad that it is inserted 
at this juncture, as shewing the spirit and principle on which 
this Journal has been, and ever will be, conducted. We are the 
stern opponents of those who designedly or incautiously are 
doing injury to the cause of our profession ; but we will acknow- 
ledge, and gratefully accept, that which tends to the improve- 
ment of our art, from whatever quarter it comes. The case of 
Splenitis is a useful contribution to our pathological knowledge. 
The completion of the Anatomy of the Fore Foot of the Ox will 
be duly estimated : we know not the British nor the foreign 
source from which it could have been otherwise obtained. The 
illustrations of Palsy, complete the sketch of the morbid lesions 
of that disease, and the account of the Diaphragmatic Hernia 
possesses great interest. 
We should be far better pleased thus to collect, and as in the 
present number rapidly so, useful hints of improvement, than to 
engage in angry contest with those who are really, or incau- 
tiously, the foes of our profession. 
W. Youatt. 
