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farther than this, and have described, somewhat too much at 
length, the composition of our medical agents, and the particulars 
of treatment on which we placed the greatest confidence. From 
the volumes most and deservedly prized among us, to the con- 
tributors to our Journal, and the authors of some of the Essays, 
this has been too common among as. 
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We must do so no more. In conducting our periodical, we 
will, in future, be more on our guard, especially when, in many 
cases, our recipes have been unfairly purloined, and our most 
valuable weapons have been used to our serious injury. We will 
not so often speak of the composition of our medicines ; but we 
will give a satisfactory account of their nature and intention, 
in order to guide the proficient, and to induce the reader to make 
farther inquiry. Still we will speak of our most valuable im- 
provements, and give a satisfactory history of them ; and at 
times plainly describe the character of the medicaments on 
which we place the chief reliance in the relief of the disease 
under consideration at the time. 
The advice of Mr. Percivall is much to the purpose : “I should 
counsel the contributors to The Veterinarian to give their 
pathological papers and their narrations of cases every attention 
in respect of history, causes, symptoms, post-mortem appearances, 
&c.; and when they come to the subject of treatment, merely to 
mention that it was such as is usual in such cases ; or that it con- 
sisted in cathartics, anthelmintics, febrifuges, vesicatories, dis- 
cutient or evaporating lotions, &c. ; or should it be required to 
specify any particular medicine, that it be named according to 
the nomenclature of the pharmacopoeia of the College of Physi- 
cians of London, Edinburgh, or Dublin, it being, in certain 
cases, when requisite, stated which authority is followed. ” 
Thus far we yield to what we acknowledge to be a just de- 
mand ; but our opposition to “ the exclusive system, ” which 
some practitioners wished to establish, is as determined as ever. 
And now, perhaps, we may be permitted to ask. Is our sup- 
posed injudicious advocacy or practice of the diffusion of veteri- 
nary knowledge the real cause of the obloquy which has lately 
been thrown on The Veterinarian, and the virulence with 
which its Editor has been pursued ? Was it on this account 
