104 HISTORY OF THE VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
the provincial names of diseases incident to horses, bullocks, 
sheep, &c. with their accompanying symptoms. A letter was 
also directed to be sent to the Odiham Society, to inform 
them, that, as the college had appointed a professor of ve¬ 
terinary medicine, they did not think it necessary to persist 
in the plan of sending young men out of the kingdom for 
instruction. 
May 3.—An abstract of the constitution of the college was 
ordered to be printed and distributed. A letter was read from 
the Odiham Society, stating that they had peculiar satisfaction 
in the establishment of the Veterinary College, and that they 
had directed their secretary to transmit to the college what 
papers they possessed relating to the veterinary art; that they 
considered the college as enabled effectually to execute what 
they had wished, that they therefore relinquished their inten¬ 
tions ; and concluded with observing, that they had requested 
the subscribers to their fund to transfer their subscriptions to the 
college. 
THE VETERINARIAN , FEBRUARY 1 , 1831 . 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
Although the present article bears date as above, it must be 
evident enough to our readers, that it is written several days 
antecedent to such date, that being the day on which it is 
destined to makedts appearance before the public. We preface 
the observations we are going to make with this remark, that we 
may not be misunderstood when we say, to-day our morning’s 
business brought us into contact with a dealer—by which term 
we mean, a dealer-in-horses—and in the course of conversa¬ 
tion with this dealer, it fell out (as it has more than once or tw ice 
before) that he gave utterance to complaints, and with much 
apparent reason, against some of “ our cloth,” on account of their 
“ manner of doing business,” as he expressed it. This “ manner 
of doing business,” be it known before we proceed farther, bore 
relation to the examination of horses in regard to soundness. He 
complained bitterly that some of our cloth not only put a horse 
