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ON LATIN FORMULAE AND TECHNICAL 
DESCRIPTION. 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian.'' 
Gentlemen, 
AS a Subscriber to your most excellent periodical, I take the 
liberty of addressing a few lines to you respecting it. Permit 
me then to say, although I read “The Veterinarian” with that 
pleasure and admiration, which such works as it, and particularly 
when edited by such able pens, can never fail to produce, I 
experience great regret and disappointment when I come to the 
prescriptions, which, being written in scientific teims, though 
they may be prized more on that account by the ‘ Savans,’ are 
almost quite unintelligible to me, who am merely a plain agricul¬ 
turist, and, I do assure ye, not overburthened with learning. I 
trouble you with this, therefore, to request, that, it at all practi¬ 
cable with your plan ot publication, you will have the kindness 
to give the materia medica in plain terms, which, in my humble 
opinion, would not only be an improvement of your work, but 
would also be a means of extending its circulation ; for I know 
many others, who have seen it, and pronounce it to be a very 
superior publication, but not so useful to them as it might be, 
because they do not understand the formulas. 
I beg leave to subscribe myself, Gentlemen, 
Your well-wisher and admirer, 
An Agriculturist. 
Grantham, Lincolnshire. 
A very proper hint, which, we trust, some of our valuable x 
correspondents will not wholly disregard; and, it a few ot the 
technicalities in the detail of the symptoms and treatment ot 
disease were a little anglicized, our readers, probably, would not 
be displeased. “ So here’s to plain English, a plague on their 
ologies !” said a very intelligent friend to us, a few days ago. 
Editors 
