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THE VETERINARIAN, APRIL 1, 1839. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — C icero. 
[We agree so cordially with the greater part of the opinions stated 
by Mr. St. Clair, and so will almost every reader of The VETE- 
RINARIAN, that we eagerly and thankfully adopt it as “ the 
Leader” of the present month. — Y.] 
On the Use of the Lancet, and on the Improvement of 
the Veterinary Profession. 
By J. P. St. Clair, Esq., V.S., Morpeth. 
I WAS much gratified while reading Mr. Gibson’s Essay on 
Phlebotomy, and the debate that followed in the Medical Asso- 
ciation — a body of men moving, as it were, with one feeling, with 
one impulse, and all aiming at the same object, the elucidation of 
truth and the advancement of the profession. The Association is 
certainly a credit to its founders, and will, ultimately, prove a 
blessing to the country. It is the representative of a great body — 
the forlorn hope of a phalanx of intellect — in whose hands are 
placed the destinies of an infant science, and which is well worthy 
the confidence placed upon it. It constitutes one of those tributary 
streams always flowing, and helping to form that great and mighty 
river of intellect which wends its way slowly and steadily until its 
waters are poured into the boundless ocean of universal improve- 
ment. Allow me to state, that there is not any subject emanating 
from the press that is looked into with more avidity by country 
practitioners than the transactions of the Veterinary Medical Asso- 
ciation. 
But, to resume my subject, Mr. Gibson’s Essay was highly 
creditable to him. A subject has been settled which had occupied 
the attention of the veterinary world for a considerable time. It 
wanted to be set at rest ; and, passing into a law, I hope that it 
will be generally adopted by the profession. 
I have, myself, used the lancet for a considerable length of time, 
