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THE VETERINARIAN, AUGUST 1, 1841 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
In the last Number of The Veterinarian, the author 
entreated the readers and patrons of that work to favour him 
with their opinion as to the measures which should be adopted 
in order to unite us once more in friendship with each other, and 
a determination to maintain the character of the profession to 
which we belong. We, likewise, have personally applied to a 
few members on whose judgment we should place implicit con- 
fidence. 
A portion of the present Number shall be devoted to the con- 
sideration of the answers that we have received, accompanied by 
the name of the writer, where the privilege of disclosing it has 
been granted. 
It will be hard if we are not enabled to comprehend more 
satisfactorily our relative situation, and advantages, and duty. 
We begin with the non-contents. 
First on the list is a gentleman with whose communications 
we used once to be favoured, and for whom we have still much 
cordial esteem, although we are sure that he is wrong. 
I certainly agree with many others in thinking that the plain 
and straightforward way in which various diseases are spoken of 
in The Veterinarian is a great injury to country prac- 
titioners ; for instead of many people sending for a veterinary 
surgeon, they take in this and other works, and treat the cases 
themselves. I am a great friend to the profession, and I should 
feel a pleasure in doing any thing that is in my power to oblige 
you, but I do not think that I should be justified, if I had made 
any wonderful cure, in having it published ; as, for instance, in 
this place, there are several farriers and grooms to encounter, and, 
if they knew how I treated the different diseases, I should not be 
sent for so often as I now am. When first I commenced busi- 
ness, I was candid, and did not regard telling different things ; 
but this I was obliged to give up, for I found that if I had not 
done so, I could not possibly have got a living in this neighbour- 
hood : indeed, I was told by several of my friends that I was 
much too candid, and this is the reason for my being so long silent. 
I am, dear Sir, 
Your sincere friend and well-wisher. 
