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THE VETERINARIAN, OCTOBER 1 , 1832 . 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero, 
The present month, by the medical world in general, by the 
schools more especially, is regarded as the first of a new medical 
year: and it is a season well suited for the commencement of 
medical studies. The summer’s heats begin now to give place to 
the cooling breezes of autumn ; our enemies, the flies, to relax in 
their importunities, as well as diminish in their numbers; and 
the weather and temperature to become such as to incline us to 
bear confinement and exert our mental powers better than 
we could probably have done in any intervening month between 
the cessation and re-commencement of medical term-time. Why 
our veterinary class of students should not assemble at the same 
time that the medical classes do in the metropolis, is to us inex¬ 
plicable : we can assign very potent reasons why they should do 
so, and such as seem to us to be of weight enough to bear down 
every counter-consideration. 
The students at our College are enjoined to attend the 
“ lectures in town”— the lectures on anatomy, physiology, 
surgery, medicine, chemistry, materia medica, and botany— 
which commence, most of them, the first or second day of Octo¬ 
ber;—all of them within the month. Whereas, woful to add ! 
the lectures at the Royal Veterinary College do not have their 
beginning before the second or even third week of November ; 
before which protracted day the pupils in general not arriving, 
the consequence is, that, of the several lectures they are expected 
and required to attend in London, almost one-half of the first 
course is passed over and lost to them. This is a sad misfortune 
to a young man intending to pass only one year at the College— 
nay, may turn out an irretrievable one, should it happen (as it 
generally does) that only a half or even a third of the class can 
attend the same course of the town lectures; the numbers being 
too great to find room for all upon the eleemosynary oenches. 
Among other disadvantages the veterinary student labours 
under, this is one that can be removed without any great sacri¬ 
fice on the part of the Professors; and it is one that ought at once 
