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dent with what we see in our own patients. The sloughy condition 
of the blotches, or rather their formation into cavities,’ and ‘ contain¬ 
ing a fluid,’ likewise favours this view. I have seen—and so have 
all of us—many cases of incipient farcy get well after having been 
purged and alteratived, and exercised, and dieted, &c., and, in the 
end, tonic'd." 
THE VETERINARIAN, MAY 1, 1840. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
The time drawing near for the presentment of the memorial, on 
the grant or refusal of the prayer of which depends, for awhile at 
least, the onward progress of our art, Messrs. Mayer, whose names 
will long live in veterinary story as the originators of this noble 
attempt to render our science that which its founders contemplated 
—that which it ought long ago to have been, and which the pre¬ 
sent times imperious demand that it should be, are anxious to give 
an account of their proceedings thus far. They have been favoured 
with the signatures of a number of veterinary surgeons much greater 
than they dared to anticipate. It may be supposed that—although 
the old proverb has been completely falsified, and although there 
have been many men, but all in every essential point of one mind 
—there have been some valuable suggestions, and some points of 
the memorial have been to a certain degree modified. 
Our estimable friends wish to report progress, and to ask their 
brethren to 
Observe the subject of the plot, 
The manners, passions, unities, what not! 
They wish to make those by whom they have been supported ac¬ 
quainted with the trifling modifications which they have deemed it 
necessary to introduce—for the main points remain unscathed, 
untouched—in order that before the presentation of the memorial 
the subscribers to it may have time to forward any new suggestions, 
and that others who have somewhat slumbered over the matter may 
add their signatures to those of the majority of certificated practi¬ 
tioners, who, exceeding the most sanguine expectations of the ori¬ 
ginators of the memorial, have sanctioned the proceedings by their 
approval. 
The meeting of the Governors is usually held early in the 
second week in May; therefore they who have alterations of greater 
or lesser consequence to suggest, or who wish to swell the glorious 
naajority of their brethren, have but little time to lose. 
But we will leave the respected originators of the whole to 
