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securing an eligible plot of ground near the market, before it 
be too late, as a connecting link with their c College/ to 
which patients might be ultimately conveyed.” 
The proposition of any new scheme, however salutary and 
promising it may appear, in prospectu , and especially when 
any amount of cost is required to carry it into operation, is 
naturally attended with inquiry, so far as the mind is able 
to carry it, into its probable practical working : and if that seem, 
on reflection, to be such as will reimburse its promoters, either 
in pocket or other equivalent measure, they hesitate not to 
patronise it; but, supposing that this appear problematical, 
or that the advantages of the parties, who are to be solicited 
to take an interest in it, seem to lean another w ay, then we 
should begin to feel apprehensive for the projected innovation. 
For James Turner’s scheme to prove successful, we must, a 
priori , take it for granted, that dealers and owners of fat 
cattle, brought to market for sale, will , supposing any sick- 
ness or lameness befall them, on or near the spot , instead of 
driving or conveying them into the mart, and selling them at 
once , for w^hat they wdli in their damaged condition fetch — we 
say, w ill feel inclined to take them to an infirmary, to be, at a 
risk, killed or cured, and certainly, if cured, to be w r oefully 
reduced in embonpoint . We repeat, would vendors of fat 
cattle act as James Turner supposes they would do? We 
should be afraid they would not. We all know, even at home, 
wdien any animal is fattening, or already fat, and anything 
happens or seems to ail him, how swift the cry is for the 
butcher, regardless altogether of veterinary aid to the fatted 
beast. Oh ! ill is he ? Send for the butcher and dispose of 
him.” Not a word about the doctor . 
In making these few cursory comments on our friend’s 
scheme, let him not think that we lack any of the desire, filling 
his own breast, that the requisites, in the promotion of vete- 
rinary science, in all its branches, should be, even under no 
light consideration, fully carried out; but, in the present case, 
so much apparently at variance with practice, we fear the 
best directed exertions would fall short of success. 
In addition to the statement made in our Council Report, 
we are enabled to inform our readers, that, at length, a house 
has been taken in Red Lion«Square, which, before long, w ill 
be converted into The Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons. 
