OF VETERINARY PRACTITIONERS. 
285 
Mr. Palmer , being requested by the Chairman to favour the 
company with a toast, gave “ The Progress of Veterinary Sci¬ 
ence.” 
The Chairman next gave the u Health of Mr. Sewell, the 
Assistant to Professor Coleman.” Mr. Sewell, observed the 
Chairman, has been also of service to us in haying contributed 
the operation of neurotomy. The practice has been both over¬ 
rated and under-rated: it appears now, however, to have found 
its settled value; and, in skilful and judicious hands, it is ail 
operation of much importance to us. 
Mr. Goodwin being again called on for a toast, said,—Having 
received so much gratification and instruction from the veterinary 
periodicals that have lately been established, I naturally feel de¬ 
sirous for their success. They have afforded us the means of 
widely communicating veterinary knowledge, and profiting by the 
experience of each other; and I trust, for their own sakes, as 
well as in gratitude to the proprietors of these periodicals, every 
member of the profession will avail himself of the opportunity of 
contributing his mite to the general stock of knowledge. I need 
not remind you that the periodicals are the property of spirited 
individuals who deserve highly of their profession, and to them is 
a merit due which reflects disgrace on our Professors, to whom the 
duty of recording the improvements in the profession properly be¬ 
longs. I therefore propose “ Success to the Veterinary Periodi¬ 
cals. ” 
Mr. Youatt said, that when the worthy Chairman and himself 
were cogitating on the plan on which with most reputation and 
profit their humble journal might be conducted, they judged of 
the public by their own feelings. They w r ere well assured that 
their brethren would never enlist under factious banners; nor pa¬ 
tronize those who, under the pretext of reform, were seeking to 
destroy, or who w T ere making the expression of their zeal a cloak for 
malignity and revenge. They therefore declared themselves to be, 
what they really were, ardently attached to the cause of veteri¬ 
nary science; ready and eager to defend the existence and true 
interests of the Veterinary College ; but anxious to effect that re¬ 
form which its own reputation and the respectability and prospc- 
