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VETERINARY PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS. 
perly, denominated horse-knowledge: he must acquire the skill 
and tact—see and feel with the eye and hand—of a horse-man 
(not a horseman^ that is quite another thing) before he can be 
regarded as duly qualified to practice what he may have learnt 
at College, providing he was not in possession of such know¬ 
ledge, which some are, before he entered there. This univer¬ 
sally acknowledged useful, nay, indispensable qualification, 
might very well form, (as it obviously is) a part of the pupil’s 
professional education; and as such ought to be taught at the 
College; if not by the Professor or his Assistant, why let it be 
assigned over to the Head-groom : it is indispensably necessary 
to a safe and successful practice, and there can require no other 
or better argument for its adoption. It is our intention at all 
times to blend the subject with medicine in these pages, when 
they can be rendered reciprocally elucidative of each other; 
and, we humbly submit, with the greatest advantages : on 
which account, coupled with the desire to render this work ge¬ 
nerally useful, we shall divest the medical matter as much as 
possible of technical terms, and give our prescriptions and re¬ 
cipes for disease in English, instead of Latin. 
It is to be hoped that this Journal will infuse a spirit of lau¬ 
dable zeal and ^ emulation into the minds of the junior members 
and students of the Profession, and that it may have some in¬ 
fluence in rekindling sparks of such nature (should they not all 
be extinct) in the breasts of those appointed to illumine and 
direct them in the acquirement of that art by which they have 
got to live and to maintain a reputation as men of science. 
We yearly observe, with disappointment and sorrow, the same 
insufficient and unsatisfactory courses of instruction obstinately 
persisted in ; we daily meet with Members of the College whom, 
we verily believe, would hardly be recognised even at St. Pan- 
eras ; we converse with no reflecting Veterinary Surgeon, who 
has ever directed his thoughts to the subject, without coming 
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at last to one lamentable conclusion; and yet, we are told, and 
expected to rest quiet with the flattering unction,” that the 
Profession is in an eminently flourishing condition! Pray how 
