534 A PLAN FOR A PROTECTIVE VETERINARY SOCIETY. 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Crediton, August 4th. 
FROM the delay that occurs in the receipt of your Journal 
through the channel of country booksellers, I do myself consider 
(and have no doubt many others do the same) that a stamped 
edition or number of The VETERINARIAN would be very de- 
sirable for all country subscribers : the object of the additional 
penny can never be objected to. The “ Lancet,” and many other 
reputed medical works, are stamped, and why not The Vete- 
rinarian 1 
Should you feel this hint of mine acceptable, and deem the same 
prudent, you can sound the feeling of the subscribers in your next 
number as to carrying it into effect. 
Your’s truly, 
Rob. Read. 
A PLAN FOR A PROTECTIVE VETERINARY 
SOCIETY. 
By Mr. James Anderson. 
Leicester, 15th August, 1845. 
I BEG leave, through the medium of our legitimate periodical, 
The Veterinarian, to place before the profession the following 
plan for a Protective Society, with some of the reasons why it is 
at present imperatively cal led for. Notwithstanding a Royal Charter 
of Incorporation is granted, it is worthless, in reference to the sup- 
pression of quackery or the protection of professional character, 
without an act of parliament. I shall state one case, and doubt not 
that many professional gentlemen can do the same in their locali- 
ties, to their grief. 
A fellow of a stockinger in this neighbourhood, an ignoramus, 
pretends that he obtained (and not in the most honourable way) a 
receipt from a Welsh drover which is an universal and sovereign 
remedy for every disease that the lower animals are heir to. This 
charlatan attends markets regularly with a bag suspended over his 
shoulder, no doubt containing the panacea, extolling the univer- 
sality of the same, and the great number of cures that have been 
effected by him. Can it be believed in this enlightened era, in 
the 19th century, that farmers and graziers should be gulled by 
his harangues, and employ him instead of their regular veterinary 
