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THE VETERINARY PROFESSION 
thick black matter escaped, perhaps as much as would fill a small 
cup. When this had all run out, T probed the place, and found, 
to my astonishment, that above the matter an entire new sole was 
already formed, which on being touched with the finger was firm, 
and did not appear to be at all painful. There did not appear to 
be any more places containing matter ; the surface only was here 
and there rather rough and flaky. I removed the old sole, and that 
portion of the crust which had helped to enclose the matter 
between the two soles, and the patient got perfectly well. 
The distance between the two soles was about one inch. 
Magazin fur die gesammte Thierheilkunde, 1844, p. 426. 
THE VETERINARIAN, NOVEMBER 1, 1845. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
We had fondly hoped — or rather, as the sequel will be apt to 
shew, foolishly hoped — that a Charter, so long, so earnestly de- 
sired by the members of the veterinary profession, the obtainment 
of which many veterinarians had hesitated not to declare was 
without the pale of all probability— we repeat, we had in our own 
mind been led to expect that a Charter, and much such a one as, 
after great and unremitting exertions, has been obtained, would 
have brought with it peace and good-fellowship to the segregated 
and disunited members of our neglected profession : it seemed to 
us that they needed but some such legislative recognition to place 
them upon some sort of footing both with the members of the ex- 
alted sister of veterinary science and with the public at large. 
But, alas ! our fond hopes were doomed to disappointment. Hardly 
were those by-laws framed by which the provisions of the Charter 
were to be carried out, than symptoms of discontent and disaffec- 
tion shewed themselves ; and, not long after, reports were rife — 
which turned out to be but too true — that the discontented parties 
were using every endeavour either to get the present Charter fresh 
modelled to their own views, or else to effect its abrogation, and, in 
lieu of it, substitute another. The Home Secretary — to whom, as 
