THE VETERINARIAN, OCTOBER 1, 1859. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. —Cicero. 
THE ROYAL WARRANT EOR THE IMPROVEMENT OE THE 
RANK, POSITION, AND INCREASE OF THE PAY, OF 
VETERINARY SURGEONS IN THE ARMY. 
In our last number we were authorised to announce the 
existence of the above important document. We have now 
the satisfaction of subjoining a copy of it. The Warrant 
being no longer a matter of doubt and conjecture—a thing 
creating alternate hopes and fears—but it being/ 4 fait accom¬ 
pli/’ most heartily and sincerely do we congratulate our pro¬ 
fessional brethren in the army on their possession of it. We 
feel assured that it will be accepted by them, as it deserves to 
be, with acknowledgments of gratitude, largely contributing 
as it must do to their future welfare. 
It may be said by some that it is nothing more than a 
favorable reply to a memorial addressed to the authorities a 
few T years since, and it was only both natural and right for 
veterinary surgeons to expect, after the surgeons in the army 
had obtained the boon they had for their services, that they 
should also receive some augmentation of pay and position. 
It is true that relatively there may exist a degree of subordi¬ 
nation, depending on the comparative value of the animals,— 
man and the horse ; for although it is not possible to put the 
two in competition as to worth, morally considered, yet as 
material for war and general usefulness it is altogether a 
different thing. Of what use in the army, at the present 
day, would man be without the horse ? And of what value 
would the latter be were he not kept in health and vigour 
and capable of work ? Now it is the especial province of the 
veterinary surgeon to maintain this, as well as to assist 
nature in her efforts to restore it when lost, from the opera- 
