THE EDITOR. 
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from a farmer, requiring to be informed by some veterinary surgeon 
the best way of curing his horses of the grease. I was almost 
inclined to write a note in reply, recommending him as the best 
and most effectual, and, in the end, the cheapest method to employ, 
to take the advice, and pay for it, of the most scientific and 
respectable veterinary surgeon in his neighbourhood. 
I must, however, bring my rambling remarks to a close, and I 
will do so by expressing my own opinion, that, while veterinary 
knowledge is published in such a form that no one can obtain it, 
or apply it, without labour, trouble, and expense, we need not 
entertain a fear that the interests of our profession or its members 
will be injured by a mode of publication which other professions 
adopt with acknowledged advantage. While our elder sister, 
the medical profession, has its Lancet and Gazette , its monthly 
and quarterly journals, lessening by their efforts the aggregate of 
misery and increasing the happiness of the human race, oh ! do 
not, my veterinary brethren, rob our profession of its only 
periodical, so long devoted to the cause of science and humanity, 
or deprive it of any of the means of its utility ! The injuries we 
receive do not, I am confident, proceed from the promulgation of 
truth, but from the existence of ignorance, which leads, in nu- 
merous cases, to the employment of ignorant empirics in prefer- 
ence to men of science and intelligence. 
I am, my dear Sir, 
Your’s truly, 
W. C. Spooner. 
They who have mingled so much friendly feeling, and so 
many good wishes, with the animadversions which an ardent love 
of their profession has drawn from them, may be assured that it 
will be the endeavour and the pride of the Editor to make this 
periodical still more effectually devoted to the cause of veterinary 
science : but more of this hereafter. 
We turn to another class of writers, where approbation is in- 
deed dear to us, and, we trust, will never be forfeited by us. We 
do not insert one-fourth of the kind letters which we have received 
during the last month, but sufficient to bind us ever to the cause 
in which we have been so long an humble labourer. We will take 
the few letters that we select in alphabetical order. The first is 
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From Mr. James Anderson, M.R.C.S . , and F.&, Leicester. 
My dear Sir, — 1 received yours. You shall have my support 
in every possible way 1 can. By your leader in the last numbei 
of The Veterinarian, 1 am extremely sorry to find that dis- 
