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THE VETERINARIAN, JANUARY 1, 1831. 
Ne quid falsi dicerc audeat, ne quid veri non audcat.—C icero. 
Commencing the fourth year of its literary existence, and ap¬ 
proaching to that development of form and power, and useful¬ 
ness too, of which such an entity as The Veterinarian is 
capable, its Editors have to express that gratitude which they 
will never cease to feel to its foster-parents, the veterinary and 
the British public, who have united to nurse the bantling* to its 
present growth. The time for profession is now passed ; its real 
character, good or bad, has been, ere this, unfolded. We 
will only say, that that which the public has made The Vete¬ 
rinarian, it shall continue to be—the instrument of effecting 
the improvement of the veterinary profession, and more by the 
excellent and varied contributions to veterinary science which it 
contains, than by direct attacks on errors and abuses. Now, 
that it is left alone in the field, and that its pages, at least 
among veterinary publications, will be the sole depositaries of 
useful hints or important facts, its Editors deeply feel the in¬ 
creased responsibility they will incur ; and they will bend up each 
corporal and mental energy fully and honourably to accomplish 
their task. 
Although receivers should not be choosers, our readers will 
not, perhaps, be offended if we hint at the kind of assistance that 
will be most acceptable to us, and best secure our common ob¬ 
ject. Any exposure of veterinary abuse, or of those circum¬ 
stances and that system which have so shamefully degraded us, 
and authenticated by the name and address of the writer, or,- at 
least, the communication of his name and address to us, and the 
paper composed in the spirit of our departed friend, whose obi¬ 
tuary the present number contains,—“ exposing the measure, but 
sparing the man,”—the offspring of honourable zeal, and not 
the effusion of disappointment and malignity,—shall find ready 
insertion ; and so shall the defence of the powers or measures 
that be, written in the same spirit, and authenticated in the 
