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the cure of the maladies of quadrupeds of all kinds horses, cattle, 

 sheep, dogs, &c. For this purpose, a number of gentlemen 

 associated, and, by a subscription for life of twenty guineas each, 

 or an annual payment of two guineas, laid the foundation of this 

 excellent and humane establishment. An extensive plot of 

 ground, about three miles from the centre of London, was 

 obtained, and the necessary buildings consisting of stables and 

 loose boxes; long piazzas for the purpose of giving the patients 

 exercise in bad weather under cover ; a room for lectures and 

 dissections, and for a museum of anatomical preparations : and 

 specimens of diseased organization, and a forge for shoeing, 

 together with apartments for the resident professor, and for the 

 accommodation of the servants of the establishment have been 

 erected ; and already nearly or quite a thousand pupils have 

 received diplomas or certificates of their qualifications for 

 practice, and have gone to the business of their profession in 

 diiferent parts of the kingdom, in the army, and in foreign 

 countries. 



Subscribers to the establishment have the privilege of sending 

 their horses, or diseased animals, to the institution, without any 

 other expense than the actual cost of their food ; but no animal 

 can be admitted which is not the property of either an annual or a 

 permanent subscriber. The horses of subscribers are sometimes 

 prescribed for at their own stables, when it is inconvenient to 

 send them, provided the medicines are compounded at the 

 college. In case the disease of an animal is pronounced des- 

 porate, the owner, upon paying the expenses already incurred, 

 may surrender him to the college ; and if, by any treatment 

 which they may see fit to adopt, the animal is recovered, the 

 owner may have him again by paying the additional expenses 

 since his surrender, or he will be considered the property of the 

 college. Horses likewise may be shod at the forge of the 

 college at the customary charges. Subscribers likewise, at a 

 distance, have the privilege of procuring any medicines or drugs, 

 which may be required, compounded at the college, and fur 

 nished at the actual cost. 



A principal and an adjunct professor of veterinary science and 

 practice, men eminent for their knowledge and skill, preside over 

 the institution, and give regular courses of lectures and examina 

 tions ; and the number of patients in the infirmary is generally 



