THE EDITORS TO THEIR READERS. 
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brane, when the inflammation is at the highest,—the pale ground 
with patches of vivid red, shelving the half-subdued, but still- 
existing fever,—the uniform colour, but somewhat redder than 
natural, indicating a return to a healthy state of the circulation,—• 
the paleness approaching to white, indicating a state of debi¬ 
lity, and yet some radiations of crimson, shewing that there is 
yet much irritability, and that mischief may be in the wind,—the 
pale livid colour warning you that the disease is assuming a ty¬ 
phoid character,—the darker livid, announcing that the typhus is 
established, and that the vital current is stagnating,—and the 
browner, dirty painting, intermingling with and subduing the 
lividness, and telling you that the game is up.—Study these 
things, Gentlemen ; they will be guides to your opinion and your 
treatment, which you can never too highly appreciate. 
THE VETERINARIAN , JANUARY 1, 1832. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
If we could be assured that our readers would receive us with 
but half the pleasure with which we pay them our new year’s 
visit, we shall be truly gratified. We have now been acquainted 
four long years; or, rather, we have been fellow-labourers during 
that period. At each of these periodical divisions of our Journal 
and our time we have been accustomed to inquire how we stand 
with each other, and what progress we have made towards the 
accomplishment of our common object. 
We flatter ourselves that at every resting-place we have had 
additional reason to congratulate each other. It is true, as our 
esteemed friend, Mr. Karkeek has said, that we have had a good 
deal of lip-hill w r ork. Never mind. We have climbed the hill 
to a certain extent, and we contemplate with almost unmingled 
satisfaction the prospect before us. 
Our common object—that of our contributors and ourselves—is 
the improvement of veterinary science. The year that has just 
closed upon us has witnessed its progress to an unexpected and 
glorious extent. In the first place, the new regulation of the 
twelvemonths’ interval between the entry of the pupil’s name on 
the College books and his examination, has been uniformly en- 
