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THE VETERINARIAN, DECEMBER 1, 1858. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. 
Cicero. 
ARMY VETERINARY SURGEONS AND THEIR CLAIMS 
ON THE GOVERNMENT. 
Rank and position are among the things for which most 
men have a great predilection. With what pride are we 
accustomed to speak of any connection which perchance may 
exist between ourselves and those who occupy a more 
elevated status in society. How boastingly does the plebeian 
dwell on the fact of his having an aristocratic relative. Say 
what we may to the contrary, we are all more or less under 
this instinctive influence, and like a spell it regulates many 
of our public acts, and stimulates also our private exertions. 
It imparts to us even our nationalities, rewards our heroes — 
military and naval — with baronetcies and dukedoms, bestows 
upon them decorations of honour, fills their coffers with 
gifts and pensions, and raises statues and monuments to 
their memories. All this if rightly used is well ; and when 
we look into the different sections of our social system we 
behold many advantages which spring from this principle of 
our common nature. If this be true then, it becomes not 
merely a something to be encouraged, but even to be 
contended for; and when attained it deserves our warmest 
congratulations. 
The medical profession, after a long and arduous struggle 
for just honours to be awarded for services in the army, has 
succeeded in obtaining all it sought, and all which was right- 
fully its due. Justice has thus been done to the most noble 
branch of the healing art, and a country’s appreciation has 
been stamped on the means which the medical profession has 
so successfully adopted to prevent the inroads of disease 
among her sons of war. 
Has not, we w r ould ask, the veterinary profession a like 
