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THE VETERINARIAN, SEPTEMBER 1, 1864. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
THE CONSTITUTION OE OUR VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATIONS. 
Readily do we give insertion to a communication, from 
Mr. Williams, V.S., which will be found in another part of 
our Journal, and for which we are free to confess we were not 
altogether unprepared. A body to be strong must be united ; 
some rallying point must exist, and we had thought that as 
the profession had become incorporated, this would constitute 
the simplest and safest means to obtain the object in view. 
To the formation of veterinary medical associations in the 
different counties in England we have always given our 
earnest support and encouragement, confidently looking to 
these associations as a means of effecting much good to the 
profession ; and we believe that we have never given expres¬ 
sion to anything which is in the least degree calculated to 
detract from their usefulness, or, as expressed by Mr. 
Williams, “to do harm by destroying the harmony that is 
now existing.” As editors, we are only solicitous for the 
advancement of the profession with which we have been so 
long and so intimately connected. We have been ever ready 
to express our obligations to correspondents, although not 
members of the body corporate, whose writings have enriched 
our pages. Would that we could induce such to become incor¬ 
porated, and thus to strengthen the body, and add to its worth. 
Should the broader base for these associations, however, be 
deemed the stronger one, we raise no objections whatever to 
its adoption. We have in reality merely expressed opinions 
that have reached us, viz., that in the formation of new associa¬ 
tions of the kind it was worth consideration as to whether they 
should not be restricted to members of the body corporate. 
