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THE VETERINARIAN, AUGUST 1, 1858. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. 
Cicero. 
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE, AND WHAT IS TO BE DONE. 
Although it must be confessed that since we have be- 
come a professional body all has not been done that is 
desirable, nor> perhaps, so much as might have been anti- 
cipated ; nevertheless, it cannot be denied that the veterinary 
profession stands in a very different position, and one far 
more elevated than did the older farriers. 
Science has not been altogether contemned by us ; yet, and 
with regret be it said, there are still some who deem her but 
of little worth, and go on in the old beaten track of routine. 
The time, however, will come when, having received more 
encouragement, she will assert her rights and show her 
power and influence ; and then will arise sorrow that her 
principles had not been earlier seen, better understood, and 
more highly appreciated. 
Still we contend much has been achieved. It was some- 
thing done, to discard from veterinary medicine the employ- 
ment of those useless agents which the practitioners of the 
old school revelled in — a farago of valueless trash, which only 
enabled the druggist to dispose of that which otherwise he 
would have been unable to do, while it opened a door for fraud 
and trickery on the ground of cheapness. It was something 
done, to get rid of the strange chemical — or rather un- 
chemical — compounds formed by the jumbling together of 
substances, the action of which oftentimes interfered with 
each other ; or a compound resulted whose effect on the 
organism was the opposite to that intended, or, it may be, it 
was altogether inert; each equally and alike defeating the 
object in view. By thus acting, we have attained to a cer- 
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