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THE VETERINARIAN, APRIL 1, 1840. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.—C icero. 
ON VETERINARY ASSOCIATIONS. 
[In several of our little excursions, we have been sorry to see the 
apparent coldness, and sometimes alienation, which exists be¬ 
tween the practitioners in the same town and neighbourhood. 
It is that which is too often found in the infancy of every art; 
but it is high time that it should cease to disgrace and injure us. 
We remember hearing one of our brethren say that there was 
not a man within a dozen miles of him that he cared to asso¬ 
ciate with, and that the less he had to do with them the better. 
In very few parts of the kingdom are there periodical and 
friendly associations of the neighbouring practitioners. Our 
brethren little know how much they lose in pleasure and im¬ 
provement by this. We have long thought of taking this sub¬ 
ject up; but a writer in the September number of the Recueil” 
has done this so well, that we shall at present content ourselves 
with translating what he has so well written. His language, 
however, is that of commendation. We trust that ours may ere 
long be so.—Y.] 
There exists at present, in veterinary medicine, a remarkable 
tendency to progression, which it gives us great pleasure to men¬ 
tion. In many parts of France veterinary societies are forming 
and organizing themselves. This spirit of association must contri¬ 
bute, we think, in a most powerful and rapid manner, to the pro¬ 
gress of veterinary science. In the sciences, as in the mechanical 
arts, association should, for the future> be the source and the 
primum mobile of every thing that is valuable. That which the 
isolated efforts of one man are insufficient to produce, when many 
unite their combined powers, and in the true spirit of harmony 
labour to effect, is easily accomplished. By association, all who 
are grouped together by the similitude of their studies, and by the 
congenial nature of the object to which their efforts are directed, 
profit by the labour of each individual, and each one profits by the 
