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and most abominable document which the records of human or 
veterinary medicine contain. 
The Editor opposed to the utmost of his power this most ir- 
regular and unjustifiable act. He stated the folly of placing so 
many dangerous recipes in the hands of farmers and the bailiffs 
of landed proprietors. If the Society was determined to issue 
circulars, let them be sent to the veterinary surgeon, who would not 
abuse them, and not to the uneducated — medically uneducated — 
man, by whom they would be misunderstood, and in whose hands 
they would be a source of mischief. On this hint circulars were 
sent to the veterinary surgeons — but they were also sent to the 
farmer, the Chairman observing, and repeating the observation, 
“ that he hated quackery ; that the exclusive confinement of the 
circular to the veterinarian looked very much like it, the only 
distinction which he knew between the scientific man and the 
quack was, that the former was ready to communicate every 
thing that would be useful, and the latter was anxious to keep 
every thing to himself.” 
The Editor's friend proceeds to say, that “ the Profession are 
making a stand against the farther publication of their experience 
and opinions that are not exclusively circulated among them. 
That they view with alarm the eagerness with which these things 
are copied into other journals. The stand which they have thus 
taken amounts to this, — that the profession refuses to contribute 
one single iota of their experience unless it is exclusively circulated 
for the sole benefit of the body at large” 
And now “ his friend” will permit the Editor to thank him 
most sincerely for this avowal. He is now aware of the ground 
on which he stands, and the difficulties with which he has to 
contend. Supported by the kind exertions and literary contri- 
butions of the profession, he has been enabled to raise The 
Veterinarian to the standing which it occupies among the 
journals of this country and of Europe. He observes with 
honest pride the approbation with which it is received in every 
scientific institution at home and abroad ; and while he 
lives it shall not lose its grade. So far as he and his 
friends can make it, it shall be worthy of the cause to which it is 
devoted — the noblest in which a human being can be engaged — 
