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THE VETERINARIAN, DECEMBER 1, 1842. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
The date prefixed* reminds us we are approaching the close of 
another year. That old cormorant, Time, has already swallowed 
ten months and a half of the current one, and by the time these 
lines shall meet the eyes of our readers, he will have got into his 
rapacious jaws the twelfth — cold, dreary, dark December. Sic 
transit gloria mundi. 
“ To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow. 
Creeps in this petty pace, from day to day. 
To the last syllable of recorded time.” 
Our Journal proudly commenced the year now so nearly ended 
with the names of Cartwright, Dick, Ernes, Field, Karkeek, King, 
Mayer, Spooner ; and by the continued kindness of friends in 
this, the last number, appear names no less known and respect- 
ed in the veterinary world. Thus have we, in names at least, 
well begun and well ended : let us now cursorily inquire, through 
a retrospective glance into the pages of our monthly record, what 
in matter we have acquired during the year 1842. 
First and foremost stand Mr. Karkeek’s erudite papers on the 
Ancient History of the Ox; contributions to general science 
which will be perused not by the veterinarian alone, but by the 
natural historian, and by the philosopher too, with pleasure, in- 
terest, and instruction. While we quite agree with the Turners 
in the unequalled potency and efficacy of firing as a remedy in 
cases of relapsing lameness, failure, or “ break down” in the 
sinews, we hail with gladsome voice, as friends of humanity, a 
mode of after-treatment so admirably calculated to alleviate the 
sufferings of our poor patients, and shield their limbs frorri ble- 
mish, as that recommended by Mr. C. Percivall. Mr. Dick’s 
novel views respecting that horrid disease, rabies , although dif- 
fering from those of many of us on this side the Tweed, shall yet 
be kept in mind, and have all the consideration from us they de- 
* This was written on the 15th of November. 
