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THE VETERINARIAN, SEPTEMBER 1, 1841. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
Several of the letters that have reached us during the course 
of the last month are too interesting to pass unnoticed. They 
give to our Periodical that character and standing which it must 
assume, if it would do justice to the profession of which it hap- 
pens, at present, to be the acknowledged organ. 
One writer, and one only, but a man whom all who know him 
highly respect, advocates, yet not to its full extent, the exclusive 
system. All the others, each occupying his own peculiar ground, 
while they acknowledge the propriety of certain restrictions, and 
condemn the occasional unnecessary obtrusion of minute details, 
unite in demanding that the veterinary profession, shall not be 
lowered by returning to a system of secresy and exclusion not 
found in any other country. 
The first letter is 
From Mr. J. Sewell, F.S., Brighton . 
I beg to assure you that I should be very sorry to throw any 
impediment in the way to oppose the progressive improvement 
and respectability of the veterinary art. At the same time I am 
anxious to protect the interest as well as the respectability of the 
practical man ; for if he cannot get a living by his practice, un- 
less he is independent of his profession — and that is not the case 
with all — his respectability amounts to nothing. There are many 
of us depending upon our steady perseverance and success in 
practice to establish our credit and skill in the opinion of the 
public and our employers. 
Now, with due respect to you and many others in the profession, 
whose practical experience you from time to time have published, 
and wherein many of them have displayed great judgment, — it 
is my opinion, that, if such records could be confined to the pro- 
fession, it would render it a great service, for I am convinced 
that we cannot be too communicative to each other ; and I feel 
the greatest pleasure, when in my power, to give any professional 
information to my brother practitioners. 
No doubt many of our writers make themselves popular with 
