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proper character and bearing among other sciences, in proportion 
to the degree of liberality in which her votaries disseminate her 
practical principles. 
If, however, we should adopt a style of writing known only 
to the members of the profession, probably it would be consi- 
dered as a retrograde movement, and be regarded by every edu- 
cated and enlightened mind both as an act of illiberality and a 
systematic attempt at exclusiveness, and this might soon hurl us 
back into that state of insignificance and ignorance from which 
we are but just beginning to feel ourselves emancipated. 
As the pages of The Veterinarian are devoted exclusively 
to the diffusion of veterinary knowledge, it is highly probable 
that, if a greater degree of liberality was shewn in the communi- 
cations which appear in your valuable Journal, it might tend 
to check the increase of charlatanism more than any other 
mode of writing ; for the modifications of treatment that are 
adopted in the different sfages of disease, and which are so 
necessary to ensure the life of the animal, would not only shew 
the intricate nature of the science, but also convince educated 
men that we must devote much time to the study of anatomy 
and physiology before we can acquire sufficient knowledge of 
the animal economy to enable us, by accurate observation, to 
build up a superstructure in pathology, as well as other collateral 
branches of science — before indeed we can practise the veterinary 
art with success. 
If you should think that the above remarks are likely to bene- 
fit the liberal cause, you may give them a place in the next num- 
ber of The Veterinarian. 
I am, my dear Sir, ever faithfully your’s. 
A few plain Facts for “The Veterinarian.” 
By Mr. J. Carlisle, F.S., Wigton, Cumberland . 
The Veterinarian, as a periodical, may at this crisis be 
truly styled the nucleus of the veterinary profession. Through 
the medium of that valuable Journal the veterinary practitioner 
has an opportunity of diffusing many valuable and important 
discoveries — by means of it he is enabled to keep pace with 
the improvement of medical times — chiefly by its means the 
veterinarian and the agriculturist have become intimately con- 
nected. The nobleman, and, in fact, every one who regardeth 
the life of his beast, contemplates with increasing interest the 
welfare of the veterinary profession; by means of its diffusion 
- we have the means of knowing and learning the opinions and 
