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TO OUR CORRESPONDENTS. 
experience—who, in their own superstitious folly, were from 
their cradle—nay, from their very exit from their mother, en¬ 
dowed with more knowledge than can be acquired by any ap¬ 
plication of mind or body, any capacity, means, or opportuni¬ 
ties. Perhaps there is no art or science that experiences more 
incursions of this description than the Veterinary; and we 
may add, but one, and that the kindred science of medicine, 
which can feel such fatal consequences therefrom : the Veteri¬ 
narian is pushed out of the stable by some illiterate groom or 
coachman, or, with yet more repugnance to reason and common 
sense, is supplanted or thwarted by a man of education, so 
short-sighted as to fancy himself one of the instinctively en¬ 
dowed, or, what is as absurd, to pique himself upon an expe¬ 
rience he knows not how to reason on, and consequently not to 
profit by; and, as one glaring absurdity seldom fails to beget 
another, we have sportsmen—pure genuine foxhunters, writing 
on chronic cough and the diseases of hunters, as if the very cir¬ 
cumstance of the hunter being the subject of these maladies, 
brought the disease, as well as the animal, (and the saddle and 
bridle too, we suppose,) within their precious omniscient obser¬ 
vation. 
But, to put an end to this digression, wherein we have been 
led away somewhat imperceptibly, and to resume our original 
thread, we were going to break to our Correspondents what 
strikes ourselves to be a plan replete, not only with the interests 
of the science, but with their own individual interests; inasmuch 
as it is one that will show the Public who those of the Profession 
are deserving of their confidence, while it affords tolerable sa¬ 
tisfactory evidence to the Members of the Profession them¬ 
selves, of the knowledge, ability, and zeal, respectively diffused 
amongst them. And as there are no stronger incentives to exer¬ 
tion than emulation and responsibility, so, we conceive, in the 
same ratio in which our plan of future proceeding involves these 
considerations, in that saine degree must it turn out to be ad¬ 
vantageous to the science. Thus much premised, we proceed 
to make known our intentions. 
We do not like, at this early period, to go so far as positively 
. to declare we will refuse to insert any Communication of any 
description that may not have the author’s name afhxed to it; 
but we have come to a resolution to be more than commonly 
fastidious in regard to anonymous papers, and more especially 
such as may in anywise reflect upon the character or conduct 
of individuals. Our purpose is science not satire ; our views of 
reform such as will conciliate, not such as may tend to widen 
those breaches which are no less injurious to our common inter- 
