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THE 
VETERINARI 
VOL. I. 
JANUARY, 1828 . 
No. 1. 
VETERINARY PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS. 
IN introducing a Veterinary Periodical Publication to the 
notice of the Public, to pretend to offer anything by way of 
apology or explanation for its appearance, which custom or 
courtesy may have prompted on any similar occasion, appears 
to us tp be so supererogatory on the present, that we do not 
hesitate to pronounce it to be one of the most important steps 
to advancement that have been taken in Veterinary Science, 
even since the foundation of the College. We have only to 
cast a retrospective eye’’ over the arts and sciences in general 
to convince ourselves how much we are indebted for the pre¬ 
sent unrivalled state of them in this country to a periodical 
press; indeed, were we to take a comparative and more parti¬ 
cular survey of them, we might probably discover that their re¬ 
spective rises into importance bore some sort of relation to their 
ephemeral publications, as it indisputably does much to their 
public institutions. For, in such ways are men excited to men¬ 
tal exertion—an emulative spirit is diffused among them, elicit¬ 
ing from their minds more or less useful information, that would 
perhaps have lain for ever dormant, or have at some remote 
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period presented itself in too obsem'e a form to have rendered the 
reminiscence of much value. The individual literary produc¬ 
tions of the members of a profession, must, in respect to gene¬ 
ral utility, be regarded as inferior to periodical works;—be¬ 
cause one is occasional and more or less limited in its subjects, 
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