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ON “ THE VETERINARIAN.” 
age we live in. I have been led into a digression from the sub- 
ject matter of my paper, by having perused the interesting account 
recently given by Mr. Youatt of the rise and progress of The 
VETERINARIAN. Its Editor is entitled to our warmest and most 
zealous support, for he has laboured unremittingly, through “evil 
report and good report,” to uphold the character of the profession to 
which we belong ; and the best manner in which we can evince 
our gratitude is by promulgating, through the means which his in- 
defatigable exertions have secured to us, the several fruits of our 
individual experience and private practice. The increased cor- 
respondence of scientific men was one of the means named by the 
Chancellor of the Exchequer to reimburse the government for the 
loss that must be sustained by the operation of the penny postage ; 
and when a letter will soon be conveyed from the Land’s End to 
the wind-swept Orcades at so small a charge, I hope that it may 
induce our distant professional brethren to cast their mite into the 
general treasury, by recording the practice of their respective dis- 
tricts. 
If we take a review of the state of veterinary science, and trace 
its gradual advancement, none of us can be insensible of the great 
advantages that have arisen out of the faithful publication of the 
transactions of the Veterinary Medical Association. It has brought 
before us many interesting facts, and excited those discussions 
that have greatly increased our knowledge, and reflected on many 
of its members the highest credit. 
The kind good feeling with which the students have been met 
by the professors and practitioners has excited an interest and 
desire for professional advancement that must have a most salutary 
influence on the character and qualification of its future members. 
It has taught that knowledge cannot be obtained without study 
and great perseverance ; and shewn that our profession is a sacred 
trust placed in our hands for the benefit of a hitherto neglected 
part of the animal creation. It is no longer in the hands of unedu- 
cated men. We are received by the public with that respect which 
accompanies the advancement of knowledge; and if, occasionally, 
prejudice should favour for a time the “ itinerants,” as they have 
been aptly termed by an enthusiastic member of our profession, 
they soon decline to the oblivion which such pretenders deserve. 
Thus far has general science met with its honoured authors and 
supporters ; but when we reflect on the names of Coleman, Law- 
rence, Clark, White, Blaine, Percivall, Youatt, Turner, Goodwin, 
Morton, — 
“ I’ll name no more, 
For fear, like Banquo’s ghosts, they reach a score” — 
though there are many emulously treading in their footsteps who 
