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THE VETERINARIAN, SEPTEMBER l, 1829 . 
“ Licet omnibus, licet etiam mihi, dignitatem artis veterinarice tueri.”— Cicero. 
DISGRACEFUL in themselves as the late falsely called u Ge¬ 
neral Meetings of the Profession” have turned out to be, they 
have not passed altogether without leaving us in possession of 
some results which may prove to be of no inconsiderable service to 
us on similar future occasions. They have made us acquainted with 
the sentiments of many of the most and many of the least respect¬ 
able members of the profession. They have furnished opportuni¬ 
ties, both of time and place, for factious spirits to open and discover 
themselves in all their naked virulence and malignity. If any 
doubt yet remained on the subject of the pressing' necessity there 
was for a thorough reform in the art, in the College, and in the 
profession, they have completely dispelled that doubt: at the 
same time, they have shown the evils to which reform even, in the 
hands of a party, might irretrievably plunge us. Last, but by 
no means least, these meetings have directed the eyes of the public 
upon us, upon our art, upon our affairs in general; they have 
awakened a spirit of inquiry; they have proved the cause of 
people asking, “ what all this means”—“who is in the right,” 
and “w r ho is in the wrong:” and such an inquisitive spirit as 
this, is very rarely indeed set on foot, without, in some form or 
another, gaining admission, and mostly too at sbme unexpected 
and very inconvenient moment, into the sanctuary of those whose 
actions will not bear the broad light of the sun. 
The late proceedings appear to warrant a distribution of the ve¬ 
terinary world, at the present time, into three parties :—One that 
carries all against the College; another that carries every thing 
for that institution; and a third or neutral party, or (perhaps to 
speak more justly) a ?zo-party. 
Now, it seems to us, that nothing could be more unjust than to 
suppose that any set of resolutions which any meeting might 
come to, short of a number which would have formed a majority 
had the whole profession voted, could be considered as the senti- 
