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THE VETERINARIAN, APRIL 1, 1862. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
ON continued papers, and the advantages oe 
PROFESSIONAL LITERATURE AND EDUCATION. 
It affords us much pleasure to insert in the present 
number the first of a series of papers by Professor Brown, 
“ On some of the Diseases of the Stomach and Intestines of 
the Horse, and other Animals.” Thus have our expressed 
desires been kindly and promptly met. 
We need not for a moment refer to the abilities of the 
author, as bis writings are well known to our readers. 
Recently the subject of “Therapeutics” employed his pen; 
the practical value of which cannot have been questioned, 
although bv too many this division of medical science is 
considered only of secondary importance. We hope that 
others will be induced to follow the example so nobly set bv 
Mr. Brown. 
The literature of a profession, like that of a country, is 
an index of its progress or retrogression, and we are glad to 
be able to point to our own as not standing still in this 
respect. We trust, however, that the time is not far dis¬ 
tant when most of the so-called old authors will be thrown 
aside, because the statements made therein are often erro¬ 
neous, and science not having progressed in their day as it 
has done in ours, many of the opinions inculcated by them 
are now obsolete. Nor do we approve of making these 
works appear in a new garb by, as is stated, bringing them 
up to the present state of science. Often with the few 
grains of wheat which they contain there is mixed so large 
an amount of chaff, so little that is good with much that is 
nothing worth, that the labour is rarely repaid of separating 
the one from the other. 
We are not ignorant of the debatable nature of the sub¬ 
ject we are commenting on, nor of its delicnc}', arising from 
our friendship with those whose acts we are thus censoriously 
