VETERINARY PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS. 
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that nothing has since occurred to merit note, or that 
the modesty of the learned Professor prevents him from ob¬ 
truding on the public an account of his additional discoveries F’ 
Inadmissible and untrue as this invention of Mr. Blaine’s ob¬ 
viously is, (we might say, was intended to show ftself to be,) it 
is surpassed in both these respects by the one set forth by the 
writer of the Preface” to the ""Transactions.” He 
says, at page 26, The general meeting of the College having 
thought it necessary to publish annually a few of the most re¬ 
markable cases which occur in practice, to be given to Subscri¬ 
bers, the Professor is now called on to comply with their order. 
'They, however, who suppose him competent to furnish new 
matter well digested and worthy of public attention, once in 
the year, over-rate his abilities !!” If the writer had 
told us that* the Professor’s time was so much occupied in 
various ways in his new appointment that he could not con¬ 
veniently devote any part of it to writing for the first year 
or two, credence might possibly have been, in mercy, bestowed 
upon it; but to assert that the Professor’s abilities were un¬ 
equal to the task of composing forty octavo pages of double- 
leaded English, within the space of three hundred and sixty- 
five days, was to reflect very little credit back upon the "" Ge¬ 
neral Meeting” for having elected such a Professor, and cer¬ 
tainly to give the Subscribers credit for much more capacious 
throats than we should imagine those gentlemen could have 
possessed even in 1801. 
From the French Veterinary School at Alfort (close to Paris) 
no less than two Journals, either of them equal in magnitude 
to the Transactions/’ issue every month! The one embracing 
Veterinary and Comparative Medicine in general; the other li¬ 
miting its inquiries to Sporadic and Epidemic Diseases and 
their Therapeutics : and of these we purpose to extract and 
translate such parts as may appear useful or interesting to the 
Profession. 
* Seeing all this, then, it is very natural that Veterinary Sur¬ 
geons and others should (as they have long and often done) ex- 
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