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THE VETERINARIAN JUNE 1, 1832. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
We have yielded to the suggestions, vve may say the entreaties, 
of many of our readers ; and have begun in the present number to 
bring together, so far as we have the power, the doctrines taught in 
different veterinary schools, on various points of physiology and 
pathology. We had begun to insert the lectures delivered at the 
University of London, long before we dreamed of any plan of this 
kind ; but many of the lectures had not appeared before it was 
suggested to us that it would be very interesting, and conducive to 
the promotion of our main object and end,—the improvement of our 
art—if, as these lectures proceeded, we were to collect the 
opinions of teachers of other schools on the subjects discussed, 
and bring them into a kind of focus. The author of those lectures 
(all false delicacy apart) could have no objection : he had placed 
himself before the public : if he suffered by the comparison, 
he would be incited to deeper study ; and if he did happen 
to be found not quite unworthy to enter the lists, he would 
bind up each mental energy to yet more successful efforts. We are 
assured that the value of our periodical will be much increased 
by the adoption of this plan, which we shall steadily and 
honestly pursue. 
For the doctrines of the French school, we shall recur to 
papers published in the French periodicals on detached subjects 
by the different professors, or to their works on veterinary physiology 
and pathology; and we hope to be enabled to obtain sketches 
of the lectures of the most talented among them. 
We shall endeavour to lay before our readers a concise yet not 
very inaccurate summary of the doctrines taught at the school at 
St. Pancras. If we depended on our own records, or chose to avail 
ourselves of those which have been kindly sent to us, of all dates, 
and from all quarters, and for which we return our cordial thanks, 
we believe that we could give a verbatim account of the lectures in 
some particular years; yet as these lectures, like all those delivered 
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