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Our success, however, in this, as in all other things depends, 
not only upon the means we use and the efforts we make, 
but equally on the way in which we set about getting rid of 
the evil. To be effectual, the thing must be well done; and 
in order to be this, it must be decisive. I repeat, agitate, 
agitate continuously. Let our voices be heard in “ Red Lion 
Square/' and let us not cease till we are firmly and fairly 
placed upon an equal standing (as regards our rights and 
privileges) with our sister profession. This is a position 
which “in justice to ourselves and the public we are 
entitled to.” 
How t can it be expected that men of education, respecta¬ 
bility, and talent, will embark in a profession, if after 
expending a large amount of time and money to procure a 
diploma, they find that they merely admitted, as it were, into 
competition with ignorance and empiricism ? If after all the 
fuss that has been made about our charter and body corpo¬ 
rate, we are still to remain shorn of the very vestments with 
which the said charter was supposed and indeed ought to 
have clothed us—if we are to remain any longer in our pre¬ 
sent nakedness, the sooner we abandon the charter and rerobe 
ourselves the better. Then we may be enabled to steer our 
ship by a truer compass. Or if not, we shall as surely 
founder. 
In order to effect this desideratum, let us make known our 
requirements, and in a body strive to secure them. When 
we have gained them, and not until then, we may rest assured 
there will not be wanting those who will be ready to become 
(( of us,” whose talents and position will fit them to be con¬ 
sidered both as ornaments to the profession and an honour 
to the conntrv. 
ARECA NUT AS A VERMIFUGE FOR THE DOG, 
By J. Hanly, M.R.C.V.S., Hyde Park Barracks. 
As I have often heard the efficacy of the areca nut as a 
vermifuge underrated, I beg to send you a short account of 
the powerful effect it had on a greyhound bitch, the property 
of my father, Mr. Hugh Hanly, 1st Life Guards. 
The case was rather remarkable on account of the bitch 
not showing the usual symptoms of worms, namely, want of 
condition, staring of coat, &c. On the contrary, she was fat, 
and her coat sleek, but, occasionally, on her coming from the 
