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THE VETERINARIAN, APRIL 1, 1864. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.—C icero. 
THE ADVANTAGES DERIVABLE FROM THE PRESS, AND 
INDIVIDUAL LABOUR TO THE PROFESSION. 
Ever since we have undertaken the duties of Editors of 
this Journal, we have certainly not had to complain of 
want of contributors to it. In proof of this statement we 
might refer to the increased number of our pages, and even 
these have, from time to time, to be added to. Nevertheless, 
looking at the profession as a whole, and numbering, as it 
does, now above 1500 members, we cannot help expressing 
both our surprise and disappointment that comparatively so 
few of them think it worth while to place on record those 
facts, in connection with our division of Science, which 
could not fail both to interest and to profit the entire body, 
while, at the same time, they would tend to raise us in 
the estimation of a discerning public. 
There are, doubtless, many who are critically watching 
our doings, and who justly anticipate that having made 
those advances by which we have been lifted out of the 
darkness and uncertainties of farriery,—the mud and mire 
of ignorance and pretension,—proofs should be given by us 
of the benefits that are to be derived from the light of 
Science illumining our pathway and governing our actions. 
And are we for ever to continue thus inactive ? Can nothin £ 
be done to arouse us from our mental slumbers, and cause us 
by co-operation and union to promote the continued onward 
progress of our Art ? No little has been effected, it is 
true; but it does not yet amount to what we have, as a 
body, a right to expect. The work, however, rests with 
ourselves. Each has a personal interest in it, and all will 
derive a corresponding good from it, if so be there is a 
determination evinced by all to advance the common inte- 
