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DIFFERENT ARRANGEMENT 
that the use of the omentum is entirely for the purpose of facili¬ 
tating the motion of the digestive organs ; and that the difference 
which is found in regard to its size, is owing to the peculiarities 
of the digestive apparatus in the different species of animals 
where such variety of it is found. 
THE VETERINARIAN , NOVEMBER 1 , 1834 . 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audcat.—C icero. 
The arrangement of our periodical is somewhat altered. We 
have placed side by side extracts from the works of continental 
veterinarians and voluntary communications from practitioners 
in our native country. The pursuit in which, on this side of the 
channel and the other, we are engaged—the improvement of 
veterinary science—is truly a noble one : it may well stimulate 
us to unremitted exertion, and it may bind us together in one 
common brotherhood. 
We have made no invidious selection, in this our first number 
in which such an arrangement has been adopted ; no new paper 
has been added—not one has been subtracted. A few of our 
readers know the circumstances that gave birth to this altered plan ; 
a plan which we are not sorry that we have adopted, and from 
which we already anticipate very favourable results. In our first 
fasciculus there are contributions from the north and the south 
of the Tweed ; from France, from Italy, and from Egypt; from 
professors, veterinary surgeons, and amateurs; and in such an 
union there must be strength. 
First, is the commencement of the record, by M. Leblanc and 
Dr. Trousseau, of as valuable a series of experiments as ever were 
instituted by a veterinary surgeon, and a co-operation in which 
will not disgrace the most eminent human practitioner. Mr. 
Blaine is the only English writer who has condescended to treat 
of the prognosis and the treatment of these wounds. Fortunately 
they are of rare occurrence, but no one had hitherto taught us 
the circumstances under which we might hope for success, or the 
principles on which our treatment of these wounds should be 
founded. The experiments of these gentlemen will be found to 
include every possible variety of punctured thorax, and will be 
an almost unerring guide to the opinion which we give of the 
probable result of the case, and the mode of treatment which we 
