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THE EDITORS' ADDRESS TO THEIR READERS. 
It is useful for rolling and giving firmness to some of our small 
balls for dogs, and likewise for suspending an astringent powder 
when the dog cannot be forced with a ball: but no metallic com¬ 
pound must be thus suspended, or considerable decomposition 
ensues. Internally it is given as a demulcent , to shield an 
abraded or irritable surface from the action of any acrid or stimu¬ 
lant matter; and although it must be essentially changed in the 
process of digestion, and lose that viscidity on which its eff ect 
was supposed to depend, we are confident that we have fre¬ 
quently given it with advantage to the dog in the discharge of 
bloody urine, to which that animal is so liable. 
THE VETERINARIAN\ JANUARY 1 , 1830 . 
Licet omnibus, licet etiam nobis, dignitatem artis veterinarice tueri. —Cicero. 
We commence our third volume, and an enlarged series, with 
feelings of unfeigned and ardent gratitude towards those by 
whose kind and fostering support our work has arrived at its pre¬ 
sent growth and maturity. We take to ourselves some pride for 
having established this mode of communication among the prac¬ 
titioners of the veterinary art, and for having elicited from so 
many of them information highly useful to us in our neglected 
and half-educated state, and w r hich would otherwise have lain 
for ever dormant. It is, however, our correspondents wlio have 
made our Journal what it is, interesting and instructive, and not 
afraid to compete in real value with any which older and better 
schools on the continent have produced. 
Our correspondents were slow in coming forward. With the 
exception of one short paper from our old and respected friend 
Mr. King, five Numbers were published without one contribu¬ 
tion to which the writer vouchsafed to affix his name. This was 
somewhat disheartening, but it was probably right, and w T e do 
not now regret it. Our professional brethren were determined to 
try and prove us before they identified themselves with us. Our 
simple claim to their notice and support w r as, love for our profes- 
