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THE VETERINARIAN, SEP. I, 1828 . 
“ Licet omnibus, licet etiammihi, dignitatem artis veterinarian tueri.”—C?cero. 
VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
WE have great pleasure in reporting the progress of this valuable 
society. Another long list of honorary members has been added, 
containing names of which the medical profession is justly proud; 
and, some of them, in a manner most flattering to the society, 
soliciting to be enrolled, without the slightest previous appli¬ 
cation. 
. , These, gentlemen tell us that ^Hhey witness the present efforts 
of the practitioners of veterinary medicine to place their profes- 
sion on the respectable footing it ought doubtlessly to occupy, with 
unfeigned pleasure and that they regard every subject con- 
nected with the healing art as part of the whole system of our 
allied knowledge, and capable of reciprocal elucidations.’’ 
One gentleman thus writes: ^^I rejoice to see you conspiring 
^Hogether to effect no party purpose, to gratify no private pique, 
'^but to accomplish an object benevolent and useful, and in which 
you.cannot fail of success. Benevolent, in diminishing pain by 
the more scientific treatment of the diseases of animals—useful, 
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not only in preserving the lives of many valuable animals, and 
thus increasing the wealth of the state, but by your necessary 
researches into comparative anatomy shedding additional light on 
the structure and diseases of man—and certain of accomplish- 
ment, because your honest zeal will be backed by the good washes 
and strenuous exertions of every friend of science, and by the 
^^overwhelming force of public opinion.” 
One letter (from Dr. Haslam) is so honourable to the writer, 
and to the institution of which he will be an ornament, and it so 
admirably pourtrays the legitimate object of the veterinarian’s 
pursuit, and the best result of his study and practice, that we 
are most happy in being permitted to give it nearly at length. 
Life and intellect, wherever they exist, in man or in animals, 
^'are equally the subjects of beneficial enquiry; and no more 
