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ARIAN, SEPTEMBER 1 , 1830 . 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.—C icero. 
We with pleasure again adopt a communication from one of 
our correspondents as our leading article. We perfectly coincide 
with him ; and we think we can assure him, that the time is not 
far off, when that which he wishes will be carried into effect. 
To the Editors of u The Veterinarian ” 
Gentlemen, 
I read with a great deal of interest the letter of the u Stander- 
by,” in your number for July. He is perfectly right. Before 
you can vindicate the just claim of the veterinary profession, you 
must make that profession what it ought to be; or, rather, it has 
no claim on the respect of the public until it is thus made. The 
market will not be forced, and the public will not be driven. 
I agree with you, and I confess it with indignant feeling, that 
the profession has been sacrificed, cruelly sacrificed, by those who 
ought to have been its guardians: but what has been done, un¬ 
fortunately cannot be undone; and we must take the profession as 
it is, and then the claim it can fairly and successfully urge would 
be a matter of melancholy calculation. Composed of the kind 
of persons of which it is, or so many of that class of persons 
who ouoJit never to have been admitted into it, debasing and de- 
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grading it, grooms and coachmen, porters and whippers-in, can 
gentlemen of your good sense hope immediately to succeed in 
your well meant efforts to establish its respectability. I will tell 
you, with the “ Stander-by,” that you must first alter the cha¬ 
racter of the profession. 
Has it never occurred to you that there is a method by which 
it might be altered, if not with all the rapidity you would wish, 
yet surely and not slowly ? Have you forgotten that there is a 
College of Surgeons, a College of Physicians, a Society of Apo¬ 
thecaries, chartered by government, and altogether distinct from 
any school; and whose diploma is a necessary introduction to the 
