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rather than an evil, and your Periodical will be supported in de- 
fiance of all opponents*. 
From Mr. John Kent, Bristol. 
Dear Sir, — I have regularly taken in The Veterinarian 
from its first number to the present. When it first appeared, I 
felt fully persuaded that it would raise the reputation of our art, 
by promoting the science of those engaged in its practice. Every 
succeeding year has confirmed me in that persuasion ; and now I 
consider it to be the mainspring of the machinery by which vete- 
rinary science in England is propelled ; nor do l doubt that, by 
pursuing the course in which you have hitherto moved. The 
Veterinarian and veterinary science will successfully advance. 
I believe that you suggested and carried into effect the forma- 
tion of the Veterinary Medical Society of 1813. I was among 
the first members who joined it. No one could be more zealous 
than yourself in the formation of the new Veterinary Medical 
Society in 1836. I always thought, and still think, that these 
meetings are calculated to be, and are, the most efficient means 
of advancing science and elevating our profession ; and I am sure 
that you, by recording their proceedings in The Veterinarian, 
confer a benefit not easily over-calculated on every veterinary 
surgeon who reads its pages, whether he is aware of it or not, 
and without the chance of injury. 
My advice. Sir, is this, — go on in the same course, and the pro- 
fession will be your debtors. 
I am not much troubled with a prurience for writing for the 
public eye, but will occasionally contribute something to The 
Veterinarian ; and shall feel no hesitation in speaking in 
plain terms, and let the cow leech, the farrier, and the farmer, 
make what use they can of it. 
The cowleech, the farrier, the farmer, the amateur in horse- 
flesh, the sportsman, the groom, and I may add the physician 
and surgeon (and not excepting those who compose the Board of 
Examiners, and whose names are appended to the diplomas of 
veterinary surgeons), must have a name for every attack of dis- 
ease, and a recipe, or at best a plan of treatment. This cannot 
* There are some inaccuracies, in my last letter as reported by you, which 
I could wish to have altered. In page 489, line 7, for “ some little use,” 
read “ little use.” In page 490, line 1 1, for “ these cases of difficult labour,” 
read “ these cases of inversion of the uterus ” In the drawing of the rope 
that goes along the back, this part includes the labia pudendi, &c., instead of 
being marked in the proper place — the short eye formed between where the 
tail is marked, and the part that goes along the belly. 
