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THE VETERINARIAN, AUGUST 1, 1864. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.—C icero. 
OUH MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONS. 
Among the subjects mooted at the last anniversary 
of the profession as being conducive to our onward progress 
—and we think that of late some steps have been taken 
in this direction—was the formation of a Metropolitan 
Veterinary Society, by Professor Brown. In the pages of 
this Journal for the past year it will be seen that Mr. Coates, 
Secretary to the Boyal College of Veterinary Surgeons, 
suggested the formation of such an association, which we 
ventured to encourage and support, but it has been allowed 
to rest, only, as we hope, to gather strength; for we are 
strongly inclined to agree with Mr. Brown when he says, 
“ It seems a sort of reproach that, considering the number 
of members we have in London, there should not be some¬ 
thing in the shape of a central society of veterinary sur¬ 
geons .^” The “pressure from without” on the part of the 
provincial societies may tend to arouse our metropolitan 
brethren to a sense of their duty. We can hardly say 
more than we have already advanced as to the benefits to 
be derived from the members of the profession statedly 
meeting together for the consideration of questions con¬ 
nected with the general weal, and the discussion of scientific 
and medical subjects. We augur great good to result from 
such a union. It will be the opening up of a new era in 
the profession, while it will tend to connect us together in 
one harmonious whole, for we want some moral cement so 
to bind us together; a unity of purpose and determination, 
that no longer we may be compared to a rope of sand. How is 
it that so little abiding strength exists among us, so that no 
real amalgamation for any length of time takes place ? We 
hardly hope for a definite reply to this question, and 
perhaps it would be very difficult to assign the reason. 
