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THE VETERINARIAN , NOVEMBER 1, 1830. 
Ne quid falsi diccrc audeat, lie quid vcii non audeat.—C icero. 
We congratulate the Veterinary Medical Society, and the 
veterinary public, on the commencement of the third session of 
that useful assembly. When we recollect the inauspicious circum¬ 
stances under which its meetings commenced, the discord which 
was attempted to be sown among its members, the lukewarm¬ 
ness of the profession generally, and the opposition, both nega¬ 
tive and positive, which it encountered from those who ought to 
have been deeply inteiested in the progress of veterinary science, 
it is a matter of sincere congratulation to those of whom it is 
composed, that the Society yet exists; that it is, on the whole, 
so fairly attended; and that it is occasionally honoured by the 
presence of some of our elder brethren of human medicine. There 
stand enrolled on the books the names of fifty-seven members, 
including the very elite of our profession, in the neighbourhood 
of the metropolis, at least; with many highly and justly esteemed 
by us in distant parts of the country: while no fewer than sixty- 
five human practitioners, and including many a one of which the 
medical world is justly proud, have enrolled themselves as hono¬ 
rary members. We do not overrate the value of the Society when 
we declare it to be our firm opinion, that, next to the granting of 
commissions to cavalry veterinarians, and the establishment of vete¬ 
rinary periodicals, nothing will so essentially contribute to the im¬ 
provement and respectability of our profession. The world might 
have continued to have judged of us by the too numerous instances 
of ignorant and incompetent men who had crept in among us, and 
medical men might have estimated us according to the acquire¬ 
ments and intellectual worth of the farrier, from whose grade in 
society we have been struggling to emerge; but we are proud to 
say that there have been read in this Society, and that our Journal 
has been enriched by, papers that would not have done discredit 
to any of the societies of our elder brethren ; and discussions 
teeming with information, and most honourable to those who 
were engaged in them, have ensued on some of these essays. 
It would be invidious for us to refer to particular papers as 
illustrative of our assertion; but we are assured that, when the 
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